The current debate risks turning into a zero-sum choice between screens and pen and paper.
- Associate Professor Digital Technologies for Learning | ARC DECRA Fellow, University of Wollongong
If you are a parent of a school student, you may have received a form seeking permission to use your child’s image on school social media accounts. Should you sign?
The focus of media and political debates has been on teenagers and social media. But studies have shown about one in four Australian kids between eight and12 use social media too.
Parents and governments are already concerned about children’s safety online – as part of this we need to look more closely at how students’ images are being used by schools.
The fast-growing educational technology industry is poorly regulated and profits from user data. Australian law, education departments and schools can all do more to improve safeguards for children.
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