Blogs
Check out our blogs for the thoughts of guest experts and the personal views of Parent Zone staff.
Professor Vicki Nash who will be speaking at the Digital Families 2019 conference, discusses how we might encourage children to flourish in the digital age through understanding how technology creates value in their lives.
Professor Sonia Livingstone, who will be speaking at the Digital Families 2019 conference, discusses the evolution of parental approaches to technology and the Parenting for a Digital Future Project.
Ralph Jordinson, co-chair of the Digital Resilience Networking Group (DRNG) and Risk and Resilience coordinator for the Vulnerable, Exploited, Missing and Trafficked (VEMT) practitioners group in Middlesbrough will be speaking at the Digital Families 2019 conference. In his pre-conference blog, he explains how an emphasis on resilience is helping young people in the region stay safer online.
Only 24 hours after being launched in the UK and US, Harry Potter: Wizards Unite — the ‘new Pokemon Go’ — was downloaded more than 400,000 times. Now, millions of children and adults alike are ‘swishing and flicking’ their way through the Harry Potter universe.
Lord Jim Knight, Chief Education Adviser at Tes Global, explains how technology can help schools take a more collaborative and rigorous approach to children’s wellbeing and learning.
Getting children moving can help them learn new skills, develop new friendships and, of course, stay physically healthy — but did you know it can also contribute to their mental wellbeing?
Student Oliver Sampson, 18, gives his views on the increasingly common necessity of giving away personal data online and how young people will have to deal with this fact in a digital future
Marion Coyne, Assistant Headteacher at Longshaw Primary School in Chingford, explains how Google and Parent Zone’s Be Internet Legends programme has helped their Key Stage 2 pupils.
Does your child play Apex Legends? Have a read of this guide for some helpful advice on how to keep them safe while they're exploring Kings Canyon.
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Dave Presky, Head of Computing and a Specialist Leader of Education for Computing and E-Safety explains how the free Be Internet Legends curriculum has changed the way his Key Stage 2 pupils are learning about internet safety.
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