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It used to be simple when a student won an award, made the team, spoke at assembly, and someone took a photo. That photo ended up in the...

Two decades ago, a Harvard sophomore stitched together a cruel little website. It raided student directories without permission, ripped...

The words free speech  carry a seductive power. They’re waved in protest signs, muttered in pub arguments, thrown into comment threads on...

The Social Media Minimum Age (SMMA) legislation was passed in 2024. Until last week, the details of how it would work were unclear. With...

Across Australia, more and more early childhood services are quietly shutting their lenses. No images sent home. In some centres, every...

This is one of those inflection points in tech history that should be lighting up every radar… product, policy, legal, safety,...

This morning, my partner called me from Italy on Signal. He rang to wish me a happy birthday. There was that comforting little delay, the...

What 1,000 Children Just Taught Us About the Future of Education By Kirra Pendergast When we talk about education, we default to the...

The screenshot below isn’t clickbait. It’s not even rare. It’s a mother’s real post to a support group on Facebook that was sent to me...

These images of “Big sis Billie” were generated using Meta AI on Meta’s Facebook Messenger service, in response to a Reuters...

Trigger Warning: This piece discusses suicide, self-harm, eating disorders, and substance abuse involving minors. If you or someone you...

A scatter of sideways glances, twitching grins, half-swallowed laughs. Not cruel, not even overtly dismissive just buoyed by the comfort...

When Big Tech CEOs speak, they don’t shout, they soothe. They turn risk into “connection,” danger into “innovation,” and reframe your...

If you would like to book a 45-minute "Preparing for the 16+ Age Delay Webinar and Q&A" with Kirra Pendergast for your school community,...

The line between what schools know and what they do just got a legal reckoning - by Andrea Turner Ctrl+Shft Legal Advisor In July 2025,...

We’re living through a moment where digital instincts haven't caught up with digital reality. A moment where a feature can feel like a...

When things go wrong online, it is 24/7, it cuts deeper, lasts longer, and follows them home. Whether your child is being bullied, or...

When a child makes a catastrophic mistake online, the first question people ask is always the same.   Where were the parents?   It’s a...

Last week, like so many others, I sat with the weight of the news. The devastating revelations of abuse in early childhood education...

At CTRL+SHFT, we stand with every parent, educator, and policymaker working to protect young people. We welcome the preliminary findings...

We need to discuss the language we use when referring to digital harm, abuse and crimes. Because right now, in schools, in courtrooms, in...

This is not a story about technology. This is a story about neglect. Over the weekend I read an article in The Wall Street Journal that...

This isn’t an argument against AI in education. It’s a warning about whose  AI we’re using and what we’re risking every time we hand it...

Systems full of pressure, distraction, and exhaustion. Systems threaded with constant connectivity—where the line between the digital and...