Shauna McGee Kinney is a Technical Writer in her day job and the Youth Director of the Subiaco Rotary Club. In this role she is seeking to build close contacts with young people with a view to attracting them to Interact and Rotoract and, when the time is right, for them, to becoming Rotarians.
Her talk today was entitled” Rotarians & Cyber Safety”. Her talk covered: Family zone Cyber safety; Family zone tools; Digii Social & Innovative Institute.She stated that technology alone cannot keep our children/ grandchildren safe online. It can only help adults. We need to use technology to guide our children and use filtering software as a boundary to protect them.
Her company, Family Zone Cyber Safety, is a group of child psychologists, former police officers and former school principals/teachers who teach the mental health side of technology. Schools pay their staff to come into schools and run workshops.
They also run workshops to teach children how to deal with bullying-- cyber & actual (aged 12)
Through their Innovative Institute they also teach children (12-18 years) about business.
Of interest to our members was a new app they have created “Intel Care” which alerts family members in the case of a fall.
She reminded us that it was not wise to use a child/grandchild’s computer to do electronic banking as it is possible through a screen shot to capture your private data such as a bank statement.
Shauna writes help articles for IT & school staff to filter and monitor internet in schools