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@cliffmanning.bsky.social
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Maker of More Than Robots and rambler around a venn of young people/ family / digital / equity morethanrobots.org.uk

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Online Safety Network @osnetwork.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
📊 84% of UK public think that requiring companies to prove their products are designed to be safe BEFORE use would keep people safe on social media platforms. 🚨Only 2% think platforms are doing a good job of reducing harm. New YouGov polling out today: www.onlinesafetyact.net/analysis/uk-... 🧵⬇️
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cliffmanning.bsky.social @cliffmanning.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
More Than Robots March edition is out now. A ramble around the ever increasing youth / digital /equity Venn www.morethanrobots.org.uk/more-than-ro...
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🛢️More Than Robots #99 March 2026
Aye they are come, but they are not gone - Plutrach
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cliffmanning.bsky.social @cliffmanning.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
How digital design influences at least one kind of parenting decision www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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'Misleading weather apps can cost attractions up to £137k a day'
Chester Zoo is leading a call for a change in the way
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cliffmanning.bsky.social @cliffmanning.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
'Digital platforms could play an active role in enhancing child online protection, including facilitating connections to child helplines and similar services, and enabling digital spaces to serve as gateways to safety and assistance.' www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Cyb...
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cliffmanning.bsky.social @cliffmanning.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
When you find your niche www.olleewatch.com
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Ollee Watch
Ollee Watch is a smartwatch modification for classic digital watches, primarily the Casio F91W and A158W. We aim to provide a low maintenance smartwatch experience, minimize the noise of the modern wo...
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cliffmanning.bsky.social @cliffmanning.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
More Than Robots December edition is out now. A sleigh ride around the youth/digital/equity winter wonderland www.morethanrobots.org.uk/more-than-ro... Featuring @demos-uk.bsky.social @ofcom.bsky.social @orbenamy.bsky.social @cfyounglives.bsky.social and many more
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🎄More Than Robots #96 December 2025
2017: 'Perhaps our best defence against the dark arts of the robots is dance… and poetry and comedy and art.' 2025: 'Hand–crafted adversarial poems can alter refusal behavior in large language models...
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cliffmanning.bsky.social @cliffmanning.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Interruption resets the brain’s recovery process. Multitasking keeps that process from finishing. Digital interruptions arrive faster than the brain can recover, so clarity never fully stabilizes.' how protecting recovery moments will be even harder in #XR environments lnkd.in/eNEvfrmV
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When Focus Breaks: The Brain’s Hidden Path Back to Clarity
Most of us imagine distraction as a brief interruption, a moment where attention slips and then returns as soon as we turn back to the task. Yet the lived experience is slower and more fragile than th...
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cliffmanning.bsky.social @cliffmanning.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Agency’ must be a front runner to be the word of 2026
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cliffmanning.bsky.social @cliffmanning.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Children and parents’ financial skills and confidence are closely linked. What system changes might help enhance parents’ digital financial capability? parentzone.org.uk/sites/defaul... #childfinancialharms
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cliffmanning.bsky.social @cliffmanning.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
2017: 'Perhaps our best defence against the dark arts of the robots is dance...and poetry and comedy and art.' medium.com/@cliffmannin... 2025: 'Hand–crafted adversarial poems can alter refusal behavior in large language models.' arxiv.org/abs/2511.15304 so it goes... #AI
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More Than Robots
Artificial intelligence, machine learning and algorithmic decision-making are rapidly changing the web, our culture and the way we work …
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Nuffield Foundation @nuffieldfoundation.org · 27/11/2025
📱Do you have a tracking app for your teen? It may have a bigger impact than you think. For young people, it can feel like a breach of trust and an invasion of their privacy. For parents, what begins as a desire for safety can be exploited by technology and become a form of control. 🧵
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cliffmanning.bsky.social @cliffmanning.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Talk:Tech from Parent Zone is designed to make it possible for any young person to describe what they are doing online. The resources have been co-designed to support children with speech, language and communication needs (SLCN) parentzone.org.uk/TalkTech/about
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Talk:Tech About | Parent Zone
SLCN-friendly visual and spoken resources to support conversations about digital.
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cliffmanning.bsky.social @cliffmanning.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Vagina #museum fundraiser All donations up to £10,000 will be doubled by the match-funding partners. www.gofundme.com/f/btscc2
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Donate to Save The Vagina Museum, organized by Vagina Museum
The Vagina Museum is saved from closing immediately. But we still need your help. The world f… Vagina Museum needs your support for Save The Vagina Museum
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Online Safety Network @osnetwork.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
It's #onlinesafety newsletter day: if you don't subscribe, you can read it in full below. Just don't forget to sign up to receive the next instalment direct.😉 #onlinesafetyact mailchi.mp/9755825a6fb9...
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cliffmanning.bsky.social @cliffmanning.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
'motonormativity- the cognitive and cultural bias that normalizes car dominance while obscuring its harms.' urbancyclinginstitute.substack.com/p/rethinking...
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Rethinking Urban Futures Through Children’s Books
CRB'25 scholarship recipient, Peter Füssy's insight on breaking away from a car-oriented imaginary through Radical Children's Literature
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cliffmanning.bsky.social @cliffmanning.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
'nearly one in five children(18%) said they had been a victim of violence, one in eight (13%) admitted to carrying out violence themselves, and half (50%) told us they had witnessed violence being committed against someone else.' @youthendowmentfund.org.uk youthendowmentfund.org.uk/reports/chil...
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The scale of violence affecting children | Youth Endowment Fund
Our annual survey into the experiences of violence for 13-17 year olds across England & Wales. This report focuses on the scale of violence for teenagers.
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cliffmanning.bsky.social @cliffmanning.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
'Almost a third of users in each group said that they had purchased something as a result of the #ASMR or self-improvement content they had seen (29% and 32%, respectively). ' www.ofcom.org.uk/media-use-an...
ofcom.org.uk
Understanding children’s use and perceptions of ASMR and self-improvement content
This report is part of broader research exploring children’s experiences and views of the online environment, helping build the evidence base on popular content and its potential impact on children an...
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Nuffield Foundation @nuffieldfoundation.org · 14/11/2025
🚨ICYMI: Have you seen our latest data commentary exploring how digital technologies are shaping young people's experiences of growing up? Hint: it's a more complicated picture than headlines suggest. We spotlighted three key charts in this thread. Dive into the data and read the analysis
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cliffmanning.bsky.social @cliffmanning.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
More Than Robots November edition, is available now Featuring @nuffieldfoundation.org @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social @ofcom.bsky.social @pewresearch.org @revealingreality.bsky.social @parentzone.org.uk and more www.morethanrobots.org.uk/more-than-ro...
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More Than Robots #95 November 2025
For gold in phisike is a cordial; Therefore he loved gold in special.
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Ada Lovelace Institute @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
📣Closing this week: We're hiring an Associate Director to lead our Emerging Technology & Industry Practice research domain. It's an exciting time to join Ada as we begin our new strategy period. Deadline: 23:59 GMT, 16 November 2025. www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/job/associat...
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Ada Lovelace Institute Associate Director, Emerging Technology & Industry Practice
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Andy Robertson @geekdadgamer.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Day 2 at our EGX FamilyGamingZone was so busy and so much fun helping families find great games. Questions answered on Switch 2 Game Chat and Game Share. See you tomorrow?
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Andy Robertson @geekdadgamer.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
We are bringing our biggest ever Family Gaming Zone back to EGX! South Hall S1680. Over 100 games to choose from with experts on hand to suggest titles, explain PEGI and parental controls for consoles, Roblox and PC. www.familygamingdatabase.com/Family+Gamin... See you there? Shares welcome.
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cliffmanning.bsky.social @cliffmanning.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
“[My social worker was] at the end of my driveway while I was, like, in the porch. It was weird.” (Aged 16) covid19.public-inquiry.uk/documents/in...
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INQ000587936 – Children & Young People’s Voices Project: Full report UK Covid-19 Inquiry Archives
The full report of the Children and Young People's Voices Project, providing an insight of children and young people’s experiences, and how they perceived the impact of the pandemic on them, dated 15 ...
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cliffmanning.bsky.social @cliffmanning.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
‘AI isn't going to wake up, become superintelligent and turn you into paperclips – but rich people with AI investor psychosis are almost certainly going to make you much, much poorer.’ pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...
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Pluralistic: The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh (27 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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cliffmanning.bsky.social @cliffmanning.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
More Than Robots - October edition - is available now. A medieval pilgrimage around the youth / digital / equity Venn and all fiefdoms in between. www.morethanrobots.org.uk/more-than-ro...
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🏰 More Than Robots #94 October 2025
“Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.” ― Samuel Pepys There's a LOT going on. So let us start before we get stopped.
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cliffmanning.bsky.social @cliffmanning.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
‘AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations:’ @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...
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Pluralistic: The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh (27 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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cliffmanning.bsky.social @cliffmanning.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
ShopGPT. What could possibly go wrong www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/co...
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From the ChatGPT community on Reddit: i'm about to make ten million dollars
Explore this post and more from the ChatGPT community
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cliffmanning.bsky.social @cliffmanning.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
So it goes… www.techpolicy.press/the-internet...
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The Internet Coup Is Here. And the World Is Still Asleep | TechPolicy.Press
At UNGA 80, the world’s leaders have a chance to prove that they understand what is at stake, writes Konstantinos Komaitis.
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cliffmanning.bsky.social @cliffmanning.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Talking about life online can be challenging for any young person. Having speech, language and communication needs ( #SLCN ) adds complexity. Talk:Tech is a range of visual and spoken resources to support conversations about digital. parentzone.org.uk/TalkTech
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Talk:Tech
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cliffmanning.bsky.social @cliffmanning.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
ICYMI: September's More Than Robots features stats, fakes, pre-bunking, power, media and financial literacies and opinions on all things youth / digital / equity www.morethanrobots.org.uk/more-than-ro...
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🚸 More Than Robots #93 September 2025
the hurl and gliding / Rebuffed the big wind - Gerard Manley Hopkins The great, tricky return to school and other routines has begun
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cliffmanning.bsky.social @cliffmanning.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
There is a clear link between a child’s and their parents’ financial capability. Parents' digital financial capability needs to be improved, but this alone will not improve children's outcomes. Strategic parenting support is also needed. parentzone.org.uk/sites/defaul...
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cliffmanning.bsky.social @cliffmanning.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
The myth of sovereign AI a handful of American and Chinese tech firms control the #AI infrastructure — from chips and large language models to cloud services and data centers. restofworld.org/2025/chinese...
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The myth of sovereign AI: Countries rely on U.S. and Chinese tech
As countries pursue self-sufficiency in AI, they risk depending on foreign companies, undermining their independence and their goals.
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Andy Robertson @geekdadgamer.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Celebrate with us! Our biggest @officialpax.bsky.social Family Gaming Room: 🕹️ 100s PS5/Xbox/Switch games ♿ Accessible Tech from Respawn 🔥 Games from @wholesomegames.com 🎯 Parental controls and @esrb.org explainer sessions ✏️ So many Guestbook comments www.familygamingdatabase.com/search/list/...
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cliffmanning.bsky.social @cliffmanning.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
[There is a] need to develop resources that address the identified skills gap for parents with low levels of digital inclusion in what to do when encountering challenges to their children’s online safety. www.gov.uk/government/p...
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The right moment for digital safety
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cliffmanning.bsky.social @cliffmanning.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
More Than Robots - September edition is available now A ramble around the youth/digital/equity Venn in too big new school shoes www.morethanrobots.org.uk/more-than-ro...
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🚸 More Than Robots #93 September 2025
the hurl and gliding / Rebuffed the big wind - Gerard Manley Hopkins The great, tricky return to school and other routines has begun
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cliffmanning.bsky.social @cliffmanning.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
‘Perpetrators may initially engage boys through shared gaming interests, offer virtual gifts or game loot’ Increases in child online sexual extortion among boys may be facilitated by digital goods in gaming and gifting that can’t be easily rejected or switched off. www.thorn.org/blog/2024-yo...
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1 in 3 young boys are targeted online: What the new 2024 Youth Perspectives data tells us
Thorn's 2024 Youth Perspectives Report reveals alarming data: 1 in 3 boys aged 9-to-12 report online sexual interactions, the highest rate in five years.
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cliffmanning.bsky.social @cliffmanning.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
‘These are not distant problems. Warning signs are already appearing in the UK and other countries. This signals a dangerous vulnerability to similar outbreaks of organized digital violence.’ The Anatomy of the South Korean Deepfake Crisis www.linkedin.com/posts/adgrov...
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Over the course of just a few weeks last year it emerged that girls and young women in hundreds of schools and universities across South Korea were being systematically targeted with deepfake sexual… ...
Over the course of just a few weeks last year it emerged that girls and young women in hundreds of schools and universities across South Korea were being systematically targeted with deepfake sexual a...
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cliffmanning.bsky.social @cliffmanning.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Sarah Conner watching you use AI for everything
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cliffmanning.bsky.social @cliffmanning.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Back from leave - what did I miss?
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cliffmanning.bsky.social @cliffmanning.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
‘Scam compounds in Myanmar may have more than doubled their use of Starlink after Thailand cut off their internet access in May 2024.’ Welcome to the future. mailchi.mp/restofworld/...
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Inside the collapse of Builder.ai
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cliffmanning.bsky.social @cliffmanning.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Never mind the socialweb... here comes the neuro-web 'Given the risks around neurotechnology, society cannot afford to repeat the failures of before.' www.unicef.org/innocenti/re... #MoreThanRobots
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Neurotechnology and Children’s Rights
Preparing for the future
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Parent Zone @parentzone.org.uk · 28/07/2025
We’re delighted to launch #EverydayDigital - the product that helps parents develop media literacy skills for everyday life. Want to help parents protect themselves from disinformation or scams? Buy and access engaging resources to use in your work: parentzone.org.uk/everydaydigital
Purple background with a white brushstroke center displaying 'Everyday Digital' surrounded by icons of a location pin, chat bubble with heart, settings gear, and toggle switch.
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Parent Zone @parentzone.org.uk · 25/07/2025
Media literacy – particularly for parents – is finally getting the attention it needs. How this will be delivered is the critical next step. What we can say is that without “long-term strategic vision” successful delivery remains unlikely. Read more: committees.parliament.uk/committee/17...
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Failure to prioritise media literacy in the UK presents a risk to social cohesion and democracy - Committees - UK Parliament
The Communications and Digital Committee publishes its report ‘Media literacy’.
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cliffmanning.bsky.social @cliffmanning.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Stark statistics from @cfyounglives.bsky.social on the scale and scope of child vulnerability and poverty - increases across the board... www.centreforyounglives.org.uk/news-centre/...
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Centre for Young Lives’ 2025 State of Childhood Vulnerability report warns the Covid pandemic is still casting a long shadow over millions of children in England five years on | Centre for Young Lives...
The Centre for Young Lives think tank launches its annual report on childhood vulnerability ‘State of the Nation: Identifying Vulnerable Children and Young People and Supporting Them to Thrive’.
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cliffmanning.bsky.social @cliffmanning.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
'parents need targeted resources to help them reinforce media literacy education at home while improving their own skills in this area.' Lots to unpack in the new @houseoflords.parliament.uk report on #MediaLiteracy publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld5901/ld...
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cliffmanning.bsky.social @cliffmanning.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
If we designed products and services to reduce online harm or support people when they experience it, what might this look like? @rufflemuffin.bsky.social explores how design patterns could reduce #ChildFinancialHarms parentzone.org.uk/article/desi...
parentzone.org.uk
Designing ways to identify Child Financial Harms in games
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cliffmanning.bsky.social @cliffmanning.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
The Early years foundation stage statutory framework has been updated but where is the consideration for digital media literacy? As our @nuffieldfoundation.org supported review found, there's significant gaps between guidance, research and families everyday lives parentzone.org.uk/article/supp...
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Supporting digital media literacy development in early years
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cliffmanning.bsky.social @cliffmanning.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
ICYMI: More Than Robots - July edition is out now A ramble around the youth / digital / equity Venn and all shady stops in between www.morethanrobots.org.uk/more-than-ro...
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⏰ More Than Robots #91 July 2025
fugit inreparabile tempus Time flies like an arrow and yet also seems to go in circles. Here are some things to make the most of the time available.
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Smart Data Research UK @sdruk.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
🚨 New funding opportunity: Smart Data Research UK Fellowships Today, we're pre-announcing the SDR UK Fellowships, offering UK-based researchers up to £200,000 (FEC) to undertake innovative research. Sign up for our webinar on 29 July: bit.ly/4lBrQQh.
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cliffmanning.bsky.social @cliffmanning.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
‘Talking, debating, arguing - it’s the way you can help your child process what they’re seeing online. It’s not always comfortable or easy but has to be part of family life otherwise you’re leaving the internet to form their world view and that’s a terrible idea’ parentzone.org.uk/article/digi...
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Digital parenting: what you need to know
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