South Gloucestershire ICT Information Update

The Know IT All for Parents resource which Childnet launched last month (see http://www.childnet-int.org/kia) has had a phenomenal take-up with over 212,000 copies ordered from schools (of which 196,345 have now been dispatched). In addition to this Childnet have agreed with PC WORLD that they will make a further 200,000 copies available free to the [...]

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Interesting findings from a national survey commissioned by DirectGov that came out recently.  They questioned parents, teenagers, over 50s, motorists and disabled people in order to ascertain what services they would like to see provided online. Overall, the top five answers were:

‘No show’ truancy alert if child doesn’t arrive at school (wanted by parents)
Taking a virtual tour [...]

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Schools can order bulk copies of a new resource from Childnet International to help parents promote positive and safe Internet use. ‘Know IT All‘, an interactive CD-Rom commissioned by the DfES, will be available to all maintained schools in England to order in bulk quantity for parents free of charge.

“A key aim of the CD-Rom [...]

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