The Courier

Please click on the link below to watch the recording of our Live Event on Tuesday evening:

Digital Citizenship Live Event

The event was a chance to discuss what it means to be a Digital Citizen, the importance of this in today's ever-changing technology driven world, what we are doing at Crescent to ensure this, and what parents can do at home to help with this.

You can also view the presentation from the evening. 

If you have any questions about the event, or anything else regarding E-Safety, IT or Digital Citizenship, please do not hesitate to get in touch with me at:

markadkins@crescentschool.co.uk

The latest big website to raise a huge number of E-Safety flags is an online chat site called 'Omegle', which advertises the opportunity to talk to a random selection of 'cool' people (strangers) on the internet, very reminiscent of old style 'chat rooms'.

Although released back in 2009, it has recently had a lot of coverage on Tiktok and other social media platforms. In essence it then pairs two people together for a text or video chat with someone else currently online, from anywhere in the world.

One of the biggest concerns surrounding Omegle is that although it does have age restrictions (18+ and a 13+ with parents options) they are extremely easy to bypass by simply putting in a valid date of birth. It is also completely anonymous and so users have literally no idea with whom they are chatting. 

The website obviously raises a number issues, including inappropriate language and content, cyberbullying and child exploitation. For more information, as well as safety tips and advice on how to address this subject with your children, please have a look at the the safety guide.

If you have any other questions or concerns, please email me at markadkins@crescentschool.co.uk