Fourteen leading mobile operators, mobile content providers, social networking companies and internet providers launch TeachToday.eu, a website designed to help teachers encourage children to use the internet and mobile technology responsibly and safely. This is the first time such a significant number of major businesses have worked together to address this complex issue.
Available in English, Czech, French, German, Italian and Spanish, TeachToday provides teachers with a wealth of information including lesson plans, case studies, reporting procedures, as well as outline policies which are designed to keep them abreast of the changes in communication technology so they can guide their pupils to take advantage of the opportunities and the risks of new technology.
"New technologies bring huge benefits to children and young people, but issues such as, online safety, cyber-bullying, and privacy are of major concern," states Marc Durando, Executive Director of European Schoolnet, "Teachers are telling us they want to have the know-how to deal with these issues in the classroom - and TeachToday will help them to make sense of technology."
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