Instructure, the American company behind Canvas and QLearn, has been breached, and the data sitting inside that breach belongs to children. The exposed information includes children’s names, school email addresses, school locations, student ID numbers, and, in some cases, the contents of user messages. What has been taken is enough to send a parent a believable email that appears to come from the school. It is enough to write a child a believable message that looks like it came from a...

The question came from a Year 6 student. He said it the way children sometimes say things they suspect they shouldn’t know, half curious and half watching my face. At first, I thought he had said Omegle, that older corner of the internet most of us hoped had been buried. But he repeated it slowly, with the patience children extend to adults who are not keeping up. Omoggle. Not Omegle. Something newer, and as I discovered over the following week, something altogether stranger. We are entering...

I am in regional New South Wales, working onsite at school with young people and watching, in real time, how platform decisions actually impact their lives. This helps inform all of the policy work I do, which is increasing daily at the moment because there is so much change moving through this space at once. Yesterday I spoke with a group of delightful Year 11 and 12 students as one of six sessions I delivered at Scone Grammar. In my first session of the day, all of them except one were over...