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Given the community-driven nature of this website, we’re keen to see how teachers use social networking to boost education standards. Religious Studies teacher Danielle Lynch gives her top ten tips for maximising a department’s potential with Twitter.

Two articles today are challenging the amount of time children spend on screens and digital devices: one calling for parents to ban them before school and another with a school running a digital detox week. Should we be trying to get children to spend less time on screens or accept that it is their future and let them embrace it?

Parents should ban children from using tablets and smartphones before they set off for school in the morning, an expert has said. Clinical psychologist Linda Blair said use of such devices early in the day could harm concentration in class.

Two weeks of positivity to celebrate #StopCyberbullyingDay

In his own words, Florida teacher Den Liptak simply wanted to do something to stop his pupils constantly being distracted by their cell phones. His solution was perhaps a little severe.

The BBC's technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones spoke to security expert Ken Munro from Pen Test Partners about the threat to your connected home.

More than one in 10 children in the UK has been bullied on social media, research has found.

Parents are posting stinging criticism on new Trip Advisor-style websites where they review their children’s schools. In one rant, a parent wrote of their child’s private school: ‘Do not waste your money here.

Police and schools have issued a warning to parents about the “paracetamol challenge”, a potentially lethal social media dare that appears to encourage young people to abuse over-the-counter painkillers. The challenge, shared via Facebook and Instagram, has already resulted in one schoolboy in Ayrshire being taken to hospital.

Cifas said that more than 80% of identity theft in the first three months of 2015 was attempted or perpetrated online.

More than 900 images of children are being shared online by parents before their fifth birthday, despite many not checking their social network privacy settings, new research claims.

Prime Minister David Cameron’s plans to automatically block online pornography may soon be made illegal under EU law, a leaked memo has revealed.

A survey carried out in April by the Association of Teachers and Lecturers and the Teacher Support Network suggests that teachers are increasingly at risk of being the victims of cyber bullies.

Primary school head teacher Christine Terrey is a founder member of the UK branch of a global community of education professionals passionate about transforming the learning experience with digital media. Here she explains how the Discovery Education Community is working to connect teachers with their most valuable resource – each other…

New figures have revealed that 1,209 people were convicted of internet "trolling" last year – equivalent to three guilty verdicts per day. Of those convicted, 155 were jailed for sending messages or other material which was "grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character".

Pupils are to learn about cyber-security and how to create the next Facebook or Snapchat in a new GCSE from the exam board OCR

Social media can be used as a great tool for running a classroom, department or school, but what about using these platforms for learning?

School children of primary school age are using social media to bombard their teachers with vile homophobic and racist abuse, according to a teacher's union.

Join the Childnet school consultation into best practices in preventing and responding to cyberbullying

Teenagers feel more stress from having to keep up appearances on social media than they do from exams, a leading headteacher warned today. Marion Gibbs, head of James Allen’s Girls School (JAGS) in Dulwich, said teenagers live in a goldfish bowl where they are under “horrendous” pressure to look good and be popular.