Dec 9, 2011
Senator Kim Carr, the Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research today launched a new federally funded Co-Operative Research Centre (CRC) to research new ways to use the internet, socil media and other applications to help young Australians grow up safe, healthy and resilient. This centre will explore the role of technology in young people’s...
Oct 19, 2011
As featured on smh.com.au, Megan Johnston writes that learning institutions are taking classes to the next level as gamification finds its place in the system and schooling starts to look less like a conventional classroom and more like a game. To read on, click here. Share...
Sep 27, 2011
The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) recently developed and released a valuable film called Tagged via it’s Cybersmart website. The short film was created to help educate young people about cyberbullying, sexting and protecting their digital reputation Tagged is supported by lesson plans and character reflection interviews to...
Jul 9, 2011
Leonie Smith over at abc.net.au writes that the biggest threat to children’s online safety is parents’ lack of supervision and a strange resistance to improve their own cyber education. It is NOT the potential classification of R18+ games and the threat of more-violent games becoming available. To read the article, click here Share...
Jul 4, 2011
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Jun 6, 2011
A dedicated game store is a bit intimidating for the parent who has little understanding of the ways of ‘button mashing’ or ‘pwning noobs’(see below for translation). Often parents, uncomfortable with entering these alien worlds, watch with eyes wide as their children whirl through the aisles. No relief can be found from the...
