Online Safety Workshops and Education
CyberSafeKids offers a range of interactive classroom and workplace sessions for children and adults to help them navigate the digital world safely.
Our sessions are tailored to specific audiences. Whether it’s a classroom of children or corporate professionals, they can be delivered in person or live via our secure webinar platform. Watch the video to see our trainer, Oonagh, in action and learn more about our educational sessions!
Our Talks: For Parents and Guardians
Our information sessions for parents, teachers and youth workers are designed to demystify the online world.
We raise awareness of what kids are doing online, the associated risks and parental safeguards. We offer practical advice and resources, as well as an opportunity for Q&A.
Topics which we cover include:-
- Popular Apps & Platforms
- Social Media and Gaming
- Areas of Risk or Concern
- Protecting privacy
- Digital Wellbeing
- Critical Thinking
Our sessions are delivered by our trainers in person or live via our secure webinar platform.
Our Talks: For Primary Schools
Through our interactive talks in primary schools we teach 3rd-6th class pupils how to navigate the online world in a stronger, smarter and safer way.
Our sessions are tailored to individual classes and are delivered in person or live via our secure webinar platform. Topics that our talks cover include:
- Protecting Privacy
- Personal Information
- Managing Digital Footprint
- Social Media and Gaming
- Misinformation
- Cyberbullying
We also deliver online safety information sessions for teachers and parents.
Our Talks: For Secondary Schools
We have developed 35-40 minute interactive talks for 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th year pupils.
Our sessions focus on developing Digital Media Literacy.
During these sessions we will look at:
- cyberbullying
- creating a positive digital footprint
- sexting & pornography
- targeted advertising and scams
- image and managing digital wellbeing
- applying critical thinking skills to online information
Talks are delivered in person or live via our secure webinar platform.
We also deliver online safety information sessions for teachers and parents.
A free online self-assessment tool for schools from CyberSafeKids, accessed by over 250 schools across Ireland between 2021-24.
Our Talks: For Corporates
We offer several workplace talks to support adults in empowering children to use technology safely. Our talks can be delivered as workshops to accommodate ‘Lunch & Learn’s’. We aim to inform parents and caregivers of what young people are doing online and offer practical advice, support, and resources.
We have developed engaging workshops (approximately one hour long, including time for Q&A) to educate parents and caregivers about what young people do online and offer practical advice, support, and resources.
- The Kids Are (Not) Alright: our most popular session focusing on 8-12 year olds. It raises awareness of the main factors to consider around social media, gaming and the online world, explores what children are really doing online and offers practical advice and resources to help empower safer, more positive experiences.
- Teenage Kicks (So) Hard to Beat: aimed at those with or working with teenagers, this session aims to raise awareness of what young people are doing online and the associated risks and safeguards. It provides information and guidance on platforms teenagers use, digital literacy and wellbeing, and the inherent risks of being online.
- Turn and Face The Strange: This session takes a tour through the often baffling world of gaming by covering the positives and negatives of this multi-billion dollar industry. It also looks at the burgeoning industry of AI and its results (e.g., Chat GPT). What questions do these raise for the future of the online world and the development of digital literacy skills?
We also run a CSR programme for organisations to sponsor schools to receive online safety education sessions.
Specialist Organisations
We run training sessions for people working with young people, including those with ALN. We have delivered to various organisations, including NYCI, DCU, TUSLA, Libraries Ireland, UCD, Blossom, An Garda Síochána and the Arts Council of Ireland.
These sessions can be tailored to suit specific needs through discussion with your organisation. Our trainers deliver our sessions in person or live via our secure webinar platform.
New Talk Offering: TURN AND FACE THE STRANGE
Designed for parents-guardians, educators and anyone interested in the online world and digital literacy
This comprehensive session will take participants on a tour through the often baffling world of gaming by covering the positives and negatives of this now multi-billion dollar industry, as well as looking at the burgeoning industry of AI and its results (e.g. Chat GPT). What questions do these phenomena raise for the future of the online world and the development of digital literacy skills, such as spotting misinformation and image manipulation?
The session is 60 minutes long, and our trainers deliver our interactive sessions in person or live via our secure webinar platform.
