Children are joining Facebook at an average age of 13 years and two months, and are tweeting for the first time aged 14 years and one month, according to Asda's Mumdex panel.
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04 Dec 2013
Last week, Jonathan Maitland addressed this question in the Tonight programme ‘Too young for technology’. So, how young is too young, asks Josie Gurney-Read
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03 Dec 2013
Student-led anti-bullying strategies, workshops for parents and circle time sessions are some of the suggestions from education experts on how schools can tackle bullying
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The Guardian
03 Dec 2013
The Global Youth Summit: BYND 2015 gathered together youth from all over the world to convene on using technology for social good, and gave them a chance to influence UN decisions
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29 Nov 2013
Minister warns parents to install filters on tablets and phones bought for Christmas
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Daily Mail
29 Nov 2013
A teacher has upload a photo to Imgur pointing out to her students the dangers of posting images online.
The unnamed woman was pictured holding a piece of paper which reads, 'I'm talking to my 5th grade students about internet safety and how a quickly a photo can be seen by lots of people. If you are reading this, please click "Like." Thanks!'
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28 Nov 2013
Schools have been urged to teach pupils about the risks of “sexting” as research suggests that a quarter of teenagers have shared explicit pictures of themselves via mobile phones.
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28 Nov 2013
A recent survey has emphasised the need for tougher laws to tackle cyber bullying. The survey, conducted by Kevin Healey, a leading anti-bullying campaigner, revealed that 90.9% of respondents acknowledged the need to implement new laws to fight against the menace of online trolls.
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The National Student
27 Nov 2013
A 12-year-old boy tried to re-enact scenes from a porn film he watched in school on the internet by raping his younger sister, a court heard.
The schoolboy searched for the hardcore films with a classmate - before going home to copy what he had seen.
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Daily Mail
27 Nov 2013
AS the surge in smartphones means grooming of innocent children can take place anytime, anywhere - RECORD VIEW insists education is key to protecting our children from paedophiles.
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Daily Record
26 Nov 2013
John Carr, of Children's Charities Coalition on Internet Safety, says it is also about what other people sitting nearby might bring up on their screens.
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Mirror
22 Nov 2013
Web creator Sir Tim Berners-Lee has warned that the democratic nature of the net is threatened by a "growing tide of surveillance and censorship"
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BBC
22 Nov 2013
The NSPCC and Channel 4's teen drama Hollyoaks are tackling "sexting" - the sending of explicit texts, images and videos - in an ad campaign and in a new plot aired this week. The Duchess of Cambridge even addressed the issue at a charity conference.
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BBC
21 Nov 2013
People must improve their digital skills and confidence to interact online in order to manage their health, writes the Chief Executive of the Tinder Foundation.
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21 Nov 2013
Recent research by the University of Michigan suggested that the more people checked Facebook, the worse they felt about their own lives. Can this new social network help us feel better about ourselves?
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The Independent
21 Nov 2013
Our growing reliance on the Internet for fact-checking and other basic information has resulted in growing levels of forgetfulness, according to scientists.
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Daily Mail
21 Nov 2013
Twitter and Facebook should let users block anonymous messages if they are serious about stopping bullying and trolling on social media sites, David Cameron's adviser on child internet safety has said.
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The Guardian
20 Nov 2013
Pupils have been warned that using smartphones to record secret videos of teachers or classmates could result in the police being called.
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Herald Scotland
20 Nov 2013
To tie in with Anti-bullying Week 2013, Zurich Municipal's Martin Clemmit offers some bullying prevention tips for schools
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The Guardian
19 Nov 2013
The word has evolved from a niche social media tag into a mainstream term for a self-portrait photograph, the editors said.
Research suggested its frequency in the English language had increased by 17,000% in the last year, they added.
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BBC
19 Nov 2013