What do you meme? Understanding young people online

🏷️ From £175
🎧 Safeguarding leads, pastoral leads, deputy heads, boarding staff
📍 Online

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, E-Safety Expert

Karl Hopwood is an e-safety specialist and member of the UK Council for Child Internet Safety (UKCCIS). He sits on the advisory board for the UK Safer Internet Centre and has worked with organisations including CEOP, BECTA, the European Commission, and several UK Local Authorities. A former headteacher, Karl works with children, parents, and teachers to promote digital literacy and safer online behaviour. He collaborates closely with the Boarding Schools’ Association, supporting many of their schools, and serves as an in-house consultant for INSAFE, the coordinating node of the EU Safer Internet Programme.