Many
cyber safety educators are either working for online security companies, or Telcos or ISPs or government - backed organisations or charities.
This is a very new area, and one that most cyber safety experts or teachers are unable to help with, due to the fact that these settings change all the time, and many
cyber safety educators are not technical but work mainly on behaviour online.
Leonie Smith is an Australian
cyber safety educator.
Deciding on
a cyber safety educator very much depends on the approach that your school wants to take in regard to this issue.
Every cyber safety educator brings their own perspective and experience with them to inform the approach they have to cyber safety education.
This job is often left to outside resources or one of the school's ICT staff, who often don't have the specialised expertise that a dedicated
cyber safety educator has about popular social media platforms and other apps that children use1.
Not exact matches
There are a huge amount of resources for
educators and parents to help with
cyber safety, but more often the resources are very generic and not specific to the issues the parent might have.
Most of my colleagues and the
educators I speak to, readily complain that only a small fraction of a school's parent body are receptive to
cyber safety or technology nights.