Lee Parkinson is one half of the '2 Mr Ps in a podcast' team alongside his brother Adam. He's a Manchester primary school teacher, a classroom technology trainer, and a social media content creator. He's a big advocate of the power of AI to save teachers time and energy and explores this in our latest episode. For further support, guidance, and considerations around AI technology, visit the SWGfL AI Hub. Stay informed about latest trends, key issues, online safety considerations and essential services, with SWGfL’s expert training. Alongside ProjectEVOLVE, ProjectEVOLVE EDU from SWGfL is here ..read more

Safer Internet Day takes place on the first Tuesday of every February. It's the UK’s biggest celebration of online safety - and brings together schools, businesses and thousand of organisations to promote safe and positive use of technology for children and young people. This episode - recorded in the wake of Safer Internet Day 2024 - is a chat about the day with Childnet CEO Will Gardner. Mentioned in this episode: Links: www.swgfl.org.uk https://swgfl.org.uk/services/professionals-online-safety-helpline/ https://swgfl.org.uk/Services/report-harmful-content/ https://www.nominet.uk/swgfl-proje ..read more

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is already changing the fundamentals of how we live, work and teach - and its influence will only grow. It can be daunting to understand its strengths, and how best to engage with it - but it could be a huge benefit to teachers and educators. In this episode of Interface, online safety consultant Jess McBeath and co-host Ailish Hunter speak with SWGfL's deputy CEO and online safety director Ken Corish. Links and resources: SWGfL's AI resources hub Free AI lesson plans from SWGfL UK Safer Internet Centre blog: "Children must understand risks" of AI-generated sexual ..read more

What do you need to think about in order to manage your professional reputation online? For the last of our '12 Festive Tips', Jess and Gareth are joined by the one-and-only Bobby Seagull - celebrity maths teacher, with brilliant advice on how he navigates being both a professional educator and a social media personality. Listen to the full episode with Bobby here. SWGfL's Professionals Online Safety Helpline can advise on issues relating to online reputation concerns. You can reach them on 0344 381 4772. Thanks for being with the SWGfL Interface podcast this year - we'll see you in January. H ..read more

Parents and carers have a massive part to play, when it comes to both keeping young people safe online, AND helping them explore, grow and learn.    That’s why - for this festive tip - we're hearing again from Traci Good, who we spoke to about Digital Leaders back in October. Traci has lots of great tips for getting parents involved and empowered to support their children online.  Listen to the full episode here ..read more

Every classroom has at least one student that dreams of being a YouTube or social media star.  It’s a tough area for teachers and educators to navigate: you want to encourage passions, and particularly creativity and learning new digital skills - but you also want to keep students safe online, and to help them understand they aren't - overnight - going to become the next Jake Paul or Mr Beast. Today's festive tip is from an Interface episode back in May, chatting with YouTuber Eman Kellam. He's had viral success and big audiences, but he's also honest about the potential pitfalls and diff ..read more

Vicki Green of the Marie Collins Foundation and Carmel Glassbrook from SWGfL are real experts at understanding and tackling harmful sexual behaviour. This mini-episode highlights their work, and the resources that are available to support teachers and educators. Hear their episode of Interface in full here. In 2022, SWGfL ran a Harmful Sexual Behaviour support service. Although the service is no longer live, there are still a wealth of useful resources on the SWGfL website ..read more

One of our first ever episodes of Interface was with Alexandra Evans - the (now former) Director of Safety Public Policy at TikTok Europe. TikTok is driven by a powerful algorithm, to push users to content it thinks they want to see, based on their past online activity. It can be fun and exploratory - but it can also lead to concerns, especially if it's not properly understood. Listen to the full episode with Alexandra here. SWGFLs Report Harmful Content service offers information and advice on different types of harmful online content, and the steps that can be taken to report and remove it ..read more

'Filtering and monitoring' is the umbrella term for a school's systems and tools for preventing children from seeing things online that are inappropriate. For this tip, Jess and Gareth hear from SWGfL online safety lead consultant Graham Lowe. Listen to the full episode with Graham here.  More support and resources for schools on filtering and monitoring at the following links: https://saferinternet.org.uk/guide-and-resource/teachers-and-school-staff/appropriate-filtering-and-monitoring https://testfiltering.com/ swgfl.org.uk/resources/filtering-and-monitoring/ Interface is a podcast for ..read more

Our sixth of 12 Digital Tips for Christmas is all about empowering students and young people to take action on things they care about. Gina Martin embarked on a tireless and successful campaign to criminalise ‘upskirting’ (taking photographs from underneath to see up someone's clothing) after someone did it to her in July 2017. She has since published a book Be the Change: A Toolkit for the Activist in You. You can find Gina’s full chat with Interface, from back in September, at this link. Interface is a podcast for teachers and educators from SWGfL, part of the UK Safer Internet Centre.  ..read more