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Can issuing students with iPads instead of textbooks make a difference to their education?

On Tuesday 10th February thousands of people across the UK joined in activities to celebrate Safer Internet Day 2015.

The UK's 11-year-olds will be issued with a basic computer by publicly-funded broadcaster the BBC this year, to encourage them to get into coding.

Isabella Sorley, from Gosforth, Newcastle, spoke as figures reveal hundreds of people have been charged for trolling across the North

A specialist police team investigating the most serious and complex cases of online child abuse have arrested 50 suspects in Northern Ireland in the last year.

"We are creating for ourselves a frightening world where the best way to survive is to be bland,” says journalist and documentary maker Jon Ronson, of the culture that is developing as a result of people routinely taking to social media to shame strangers, in many cases for nothing more than a bad joke.

Micheal Hendry has been declared unfit to teach after a series of inappropriate messages to two female pupils - where he called them “sweetie”, “sweetheart” and “sweetpea” - came to light.

Education secretary says all schoolchildren must be taught to navigate modern social issues brought on by the internet age

Cyberbullying has become a worrying internet trend - and a new study has revealed that 9.3% of teenagers actively admit to bullying other children online.

ChildLine’s latest report, Under Pressure, outlines the challenges and pressures young people are facing online.

British police forces have charged or cautioned as many as 6,329 people for sending malicious messages between November 2010 and November 2013. Many of the trolls were charged or cautioned under Section 127 of the Communications Act 2003 which punishes "improper use of public electronic messages" which are "grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character".

One mum has told how her 10-year-old daughter was left hysterical after a man repeatedly contacted her using the free video chat app Oovoo

Changes to improve safety and content issues on Twitter will be rolled out from today (27 February), and should reach all users in the coming weeks.

Facebook has been accused of breaking European data-protection laws, in a report written for Belgium's privacy watchdog. The social network placed "too much burden" on users to navigate its complex settings, said the report.

In criminal proceedings from accident claims to terrorism charges, how should the authorities strike the appropriate balance between justice and privacy?

Snapchat has launched a safety centre for parents and children, hoping to shed its image a “sexting” app. The safety center has been built in response to worries from parents and teachers, and was developed with online safety groups including the UK Safer Internet Center.

Google is launching a kid-friendly version of its Youtube app that will show videos aimed at youngsters using its Android devices.

Online freedom brings internet dangers. With regulation limited and hard to enforce, education could be the key to keeping our children safe

A House of Lords report has called for the Internet to be reclassified as a public utility. The report argues that the Internet should be defined as a utility service, available for all to access and use, due to its monumental importance to everyday life.

Following a sharp rise in the number of prosecutions for online offences, a civil liberties group has warned legislation surrounding Twitter, Facebook and other social media sites is “woefully out of date” and in need of “serious reform.”