Almost 70% of primary and secondary schools in the UK now use tablet computers, according to research.
But the study says there is no clear evidence of academic improvement for pupils using tablet devices.
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BBC
03 Dec 2014
Video game reviewer Alanah Pearce was threatened with violence and rape on social media, so she decided to take action.
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Sky News
01 Dec 2014
Secondary pupils are easily duped into believing that adults they are speaking to online are teenagers, research shows.
Even pupils who have received lessons in internet safety are quick to assume that strangers using textspeak and slang are their own age.
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TES
01 Dec 2014
Get Safe Online, together with Barclays and Kaspersky, have drawn up the most ‘Risky Christmas Gift List’ in a bid to prevent honest consumers falling victim to Christmas cybercrimes this year.
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Get Safe Online
01 Dec 2014
Tumblr is the fastest growing social media site according to new research from GlobalWebIndex, which notes that its active users grew by 120% in the last six months, while its registered user total grew by 45%.
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The Guardian
27 Nov 2014
Secondary school aged children bypassing teachers' controls to look at adult websites
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Daily Mail
27 Nov 2014
Teachers have been given powers to delete sexting images from pupils' phones which could be covering up the scale of the indecent images circulating in schools and online.
Former culture secretary Maria Miller told MailOnline that children must be taught that sharing explicit images is a sexual offence: 'The worst sort of crime'.
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Daily Mail
27 Nov 2014
As more children use the internet than ever before and one in three even have their own tablet, a new survey today reveals that children as young as five are sharing personal information online with people they don't know in real life.
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Daily Mail
27 Nov 2014
Breck Bednar, 14, died in Grays, Essex, after allegedly going to see computer engineer Lewis Daynes after meeting him on the internet
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The Telegraph
25 Nov 2014
Parents can no longer punish naughty children by sending them to their bedroom because of the rise of Twitter and Facebook, according to a leading private school headmistress.
Social media is putting unprecedented pressure on modern parenting by turning every domestic decision into the subject of "global scrutiny", said Alice Phillips, president of the Girls' Schools Association.
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The Telegraph
25 Nov 2014
The number of teachers barred from the profession for inappropriate use of social media has more than doubled in the past year.
Figures from National College of Training and Leadership disciplinary hearings show that 17 of the 100 hearings held last year stemmed from complaints about the use of social media sites, with 16 of the 17 being banned.
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The Independent
25 Nov 2014
Twitter's rolling out a feature which could instil fear into your social media hearts.
It's letting you search for every public tweet since its creation in 2006, roughly half a trillion posts.
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BBC
24 Nov 2014
Hundreds of thousands of Android phones have been infected with malware that uses handsets to send spam and buy event tickets in bulk.
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BBC
24 Nov 2014
The only way to be absolutely sure that hackers aren’t in your webcams is to turn them off. But there’s a lot you can do to keep your cameras safe on the internet
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The Independent
24 Nov 2014
Everyone talks about online safety and we all need to implement it into our cyber-worlds but have you ever truly sat down and thought about what it really means?
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Huffington Post (USA)
24 Nov 2014
Third of children admit to visiting websites their parents wouldn't approve of
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PC Advisor
20 Nov 2014
Internet trolling has become a growing problem in recent years, but is enough being done to teach children about online abuse?
Despite guidance for schools, the chair of the education select committee says many are still failing to make students more aware of the dangers.
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BBC
20 Nov 2014
Celebrities are inadvertently fuelling a "sexting" boom among schoolchildren, the National Crime Agency's (NCA) head of child protection has suggested.
Dr Zoe Hilton told MPs it was now normal for teenagers to text sexually explicit messages and photographs to each other as they attempted to imitate famous stars and adults.
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The Telegraph
20 Nov 2014
Teachers should not be friends with their pupils and must avoid connecting with them online, according to new, official advice issued on Monday.
The guidance, to be published by the Department for Education (DoE), will caution them against accepting friend requests on Facebook from current or former pupils.
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The Independent
18 Nov 2014
Research published by the Department for Education suggests that schoolchildren are more 'sober' than those a decade ago but spend less time socialising with friends
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The Telegraph
18 Nov 2014