What do you meme? Keeping up with children and young people online

🏷️ From £175
🎧 Safeguarding leads, pastoral leads, deputy heads, boarding staff
📍 Online
✅ Included in BSA CPD Pass

Course outline:

In today’s digital age, boarding staff and education professionals need to stay connected with students’ online lives. Unsure how to keep up with fast-changing internet trends and digital culture? This webinar is here to help!

Join us for an up-to-the-minute session where you’ll explore how children and young people use digital spaces daily, as well as the emerging language, behaviours and social expecations they are navigating. You’ll gain practical strategies to connect authentically with students by understanding their online world, boosting your confidence to support their digital wellbeing and safety.

Learning outcomes:

• Insightful understanding of children and young people’s online worlds
• Deeper awareness of how digital trends impact their lives
• Greater confidence engaging with young people around digital wellbeing and safety.

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Speaker:

Karl Hopwood, Online safety expert

Karl is an independent online safety expert. He is a member of UKCIS (UK Council for Internet Safety) and sits on the UKCIS evidence group, education working group and the early warning group as well as on the advisory board for the UK Safer Internet Centre. He also sits on the Roblox trust and safety board where he represents the Insafe network. He was part of an expert steering group with TikTok looking at harmful and dangerous online challenges and regularly contributes to content for Internet Matters, recently delivering their online safety training for those working with children in care commissioned by Ofcom.

Karl has worked for a number of key players in the UK and abroad including CEOP (Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre), BECTA (British Educational and Communications Technology Agency), the European Commission, the UN and several Local Authorities within the UK and in Europe.

As an ex primary headteacher, he continues to work closely in schools across Europe with children, young people, parents, teachers and governors to develop safer online behaviours and the promotion of digital literacy. Karl has been employed for the last 19 years as an in-house consultant for INSAFE which is the coordinating node of the EU Better Internet for Kids programme where he is responsible for the coordination of safer internet helplines and awareness centres across Europe. Karl was the Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Marie Collins Foundation for 7 years, a charity which supports young people who have been sexually abused and exploited online and is now Chair of the board of trustees of Childnet international and Chair of the executive committee of SACPA (Safeguarding and Child Protection Association). Karl has also worked with the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and chaired the working group to re-write their Child Online Protection Guidance.