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Digital Safety - Mon 21st 6:15 School Auditorium-updated

The Mahurangi College Board of Trustees and Friends of Mahu are running a special series for parents and students with a focus on ‘21st Century Technologies’. Starting Monday 21st March at 6:15pm through lectures given by a variety of inspiring guest speakers, the aim of this series is to inform parents about technology and how it works in their child’s world, and to support students to think about where technology can take them in their future career path.

Parents are invited to come along to the four parent evening lectures on offer in this series, the first one being held at the college hall on 21 March is entitled “21st Century Technologies - Digital Protection”. This will be given by guest speaker Lee Chisholm.  Lee is the Operations Manager at NetSafe, a non‐profit organisation that promotes safe and responsible use of online technologies. The evening starts at 6.15pm, with refreshments provided.  

Lee is the Education and Training Specialist at NetSafe.  She has a background in counselling, mediation and management, and joined NetSafe in 2005.  Schools and the public contact NetSafe to seek advice on a wide range of online challenges. These are as diverse as online harassment and bullying, offensive and damaging sexual content, malicious software, theft of data and a myriad of scams. 

Lee’s experience enables her to share some preventative strategies to reduce the chances of your children being adversely impacted by online challenges.

The session will cover Online safety

•         Safe and secure online habits at home and beyond
•         What young people are doing online
•         Some challenges presented by using social media
•         Conversations you might have with children about online practice
•         A chance to ask questions

The second, “21st Century Technologies - The Art of 3D and Today’s Media” will be held on 23 May will be delivered by guest speaker Gabriel Teo(seen below working with his students). Gabriel, founder and professor of visual effects, has more than 15 years of global industry experience working in major film and game studios. In October 2014, he earned the Master of Animation accreditation. He is currently based in Hong Kong, where he has developed the Visual Effects department at SCAD.  Year 9-13 students have already had the amazing experience of listening to Gabriel Teo speak during assembly.

The third and fourth lectures in this series will run in June and August.  As well as being highly informative, this is a great opportunity for parents to come along and connect with what is happening at the college. Students are welcome to come along too.   

Students can choose to go along to a series of Lunchtime Sessions in the college library to learn more about links with potential career pathways in certain areas. In addition to the guest speakers, teachers will also be available during these lectures to further support students.

Starting in September, a new series will begin, with a focus on Health.