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    Dusting off the computer: 5 lessons to keep kids safe online for the new school year

    Cybersecurity experts shares 5 lessons every parent has to teach their children during the back-to-school season The back-to-school season is exciting — new knowledge, new digital tools, and new discoveries. But it also brings higher cybersecurity risks for both schools and children. Cybersecurity experts are urging children, parents, and school communities to stay extra alert during this period. “The back-to-school period requires additional efforts to keep children and school communities safe online. A new beginning means new digital tools, online searches, and registrations for learning platforms. All of that increases cyber risks that must be taken seriously,” says Karolis Arbačiauskas, head of product at NordPass. A new study by NordPass,…

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    Twinkl

    I would like to introduce you to Joe who works for the international children’s educational publisher, Twinkl. Twinkl was founded in 2010, with a simple goal of ‘helping those who teach’. This became Twinkl mission and is central to everything they do at. Twinkl provides high-quality, trusted educational materials, which are all teacher-created and checked. Twinkl could be just the thing to really make the Holidays go by easily. You see, with over 730,000 teacher-made resources with a range of themes from the Seaside to Dinosaurs to Fantasy & Traditional Tales. But the best part is that it’s not just word searches or colouring sheets (though we have plenty of those),…

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    Google Pixelbook

    David and I have concluded that even though renting my computer in some ways is smart and we would like to keep doing it. In other ways, we know if we quit we can use the money for other things we would want to do. I let David know I would like to look for a computer for both Charlie and me. One of the ones I plan on looking into is the Google Pixelbook. Charlie is only 10, and I wouldn’t think he needs his computer although with us homeschooling Charlie it would be smarter to pay cash and purchase two networks this week. When David is off, we will be…

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