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Teacher sacked after calling pupils 'feral' on Twitter
A teacher has been sacked after she called one pupil “cowface” and labelled others “feral” on Twitter.
Story from: Telegraph
03 Apr 2014
McAfee’s mascot competition
McAfee launch schools competition for a super hero mascot, to protect the online world from cybercrime
Story from: Education Technology
02 Apr 2014
NekNominate: girl, nine, becomes youngest victim of drinking craze
Rhiannon Scully was admitted to hospital after downing a cocktail of whisky and vodka, encouraged by her friends
Story from: Telegraph
01 Apr 2014
Primary school pupils sent 'obscene' messages on Movie Star Planet
A primary school has warned parents that adults posing as children have sent "obscene" messages to some of its pupils on a popular game website.
Story from: BBC
01 Apr 2014
Three in a hundred primary school children visited porn sites during study
Researchers who tracked web use habits say 44,000 primary school children in the UK accessed adult material
Story from: The Guardian
01 Apr 2014
Teen wins $70,000 after being forced to hand over Facebook password to school officials
A teenager who was forced to hand over her Facebook password by school officials so they could check her private messages has been awarded $70,000 in damages.
Story from: Daily Mail
28 Mar 2014
Porn site age-check law demanded by media regulator
A UK industry regulator has called for the law to be changed to require pornography sites to carry out age checks before granting access.
Story from: BBC
28 Mar 2014
You're gone? Good: Fury over teacher's shocking Facebook post about a 16-year-old student who'd killed himself 24 hours earlier
'You were a moody, disrespectful little brat' - these are the vulgar words of a high school teacher just 24 hours after one of his 16-year-old students committed suicide.
Story from: Daily Mail
27 Mar 2014
Government backs tougher sentences on cyber-bullies and text perverts
The Government today backed tougher laws that could see cyber stalkers and text perverts locked up for two years.
Story from: London Evening Standard
26 Mar 2014
Outrage as Ask.fm baits its bulimic teen members
A notorious website has been criticised by charities for encouraging teenagers to share stories of eating disorders online.
Story from: Herald Scotland
25 Mar 2014
Teen found guilty of cyberbullying after posting nude pictures of young girl
A teen charged less than three weeks ago with cyberbullying after he posted nude pictures of a 15-year-old girl online has pleaded no contest to the crime.
Story from: Salisbury Post (US)
21 Mar 2014
Sellotape selfies become the latest version of the internet’s most popular craze
Sellotape selfies, aka sellofies, have spread in popularity on Facebook as the latest baffling craze for people with too much time on their hands.
Story from: Metro
21 Mar 2014
No makeup selfie: Critics answered as Cancer Research UK given £1m in just 24 hours
The 'no makeup selfie' trend may have sparked a huge cancer awareness vs narcissism debate, but it is arguably more productive than previous viral trends, if the £1 million in donations made within just 24 hours is anything to go by.
Story from: The Independent
21 Mar 2014
Facebook bullies make Herne Bay teenager Daniel Dooner try to kill himself after two-year ordeal by online trolls
A tormented Herne Bay teenager has told how Facebook bullies destroyed his life and drove him to a desperate suicide bid. Daniel Dooner, 17, was harassed by online trolls for two years - causing him to spiral into depression and self-harm behind closed doors.
Story from: Kent Online
21 Mar 2014
10 Best Tips on Online Safety, a Guide Released Today by NoBullying
Today, NoBullying releases a guide to 10 Best Tips on Online Safety. The tips include ways to fight off Malware, and tips on using Antivirus and firewall programs as well as ways to correctly download free software as well as a guide to drive-by downloads.
Story from: Digital Journal
20 Mar 2014
Teacher quits after Facebook rant because pupils looked at his pictures online
Teacher posted angry message about on the social network. He was furious that pupils had been viewing his open Facebook profile
Story from: Daily Mail
20 Mar 2014
What younger teens love and hate about social
A new report by the NSPCC, ‘The experiences of 11-16 year olds on social networking sites’, describes the views of 11-16 year olds on social networking sites and the ways they cope with things that upset them online.
Story from: Voxburner
20 Mar 2014
Web industry efforts against online abuse 'insufficient'
Efforts by the internet industry to eradicate child porn may prove "woefully insufficient", MPs have warned as they called for beefed-up action to improve online safety.
Story from: ITV News
19 Mar 2014
Online porn and bullying - children 'need more protection'
Stronger action must be taken to protect children from online bullying and pornography, MPs have said.
Story from: BBC
19 Mar 2014
Pupils need to develop 'true grit' to cope with the pressures of Facebook, says top head
Andrew Halls, the head of Kings College School, says pupils need "emotional resilience" classes to combat the influence of social media websites such as Facebook and AskFM
Story from: The Telegraph
19 Mar 2014
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