Episode 23 of the Toddcast the Teacher Podcast: Trent Ray and Sam Macauley (Cyber Safety Project).
For the twenty-third episode of the Toddcast the Teacher Podcast, I had the wonderful privilege of interviewing Trent Ray and Sam Macauley from the Cyber Safety Project.
Both Trent and Sam have a number of years’ experience in either primary or secondary schools as teachers or leaders before both becoming co-founders of the Cyber Safety Project. Trent is the Director and Cyber Safety Educator and Sam is the Lead Cyber Safety Educator.
The Cyber Safety Project’s mission is to provide a whole community approach focused on developing future skills, lifelong habits and self-regulation when innovating and using digital technologies for work, life and play. They complete this through empowering young people, equipping educators and engaging parents.
The Cyber Safety Project ensures that they support and empower all Australian students to be safe and responsible users of digital technologies both at home and school and arm all teachers, parents and the wider community with digital literacy skills, resources and up to date information and latest trending digital topics.
Trent and Sam discuss the following:
- Their teaching journey, why they became teachers and their teacher role model/s.
- How did the Cyber Safety Project all come about.
- What does the Cyber Safety Project offer for schools, students, teachers and parents.
- Has having teaching experience helped deliver the Cyber Safety Project program and curriculum.
- The highlight and most challenging part of their job at the Cyber Safety Project.
- Top tips for teachers when looking and dealing with cyber safety and digital wellbeing in each teaching area – Prep-2, Grade 3-6 and Secondary School.
- Tips for parents when looking and dealing with cyber safety and digital wellbeing.
- Different strategies of how to deal with cyber safety and digital wellbeing situations at school.
- Current trends teachers and parents should be looking out for in regard to cyber safety and digital wellbeing and how to keep up to date in this area.
- One Word Association with Todd (Game)
Click on the links below for more information about the Cyber Safety Project
Website – https://cybersafetyproject.com.au/
Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/cybersafetyproject
Instagram – https://www.facebook.com/cybersafetyproject
Twitter - https://twitter.com/_CyberSafety
Trent and Sam mention various other resources/websites throughout the podcast. Here are the links below:
eSafety Commissioner - https://www.esafety.gov.au/
Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation - https://www.accce.gov.au/
Common Sense Media - https://www.commonsensemedia.org/
