Expert-Led Webinar: Prioritising Digital Safety in Schools - Thursday 5 June 2025 (Online)

HMC Expert-led Webinars – a series of online CPD sessions, focusing on current themes and issues within wider society impacting schools and school culture.

Description

Prioritising Digital Safety in Schools

As schools navigate an increasingly digital world, safeguarding students online is just as important as keeping them safe in person. This interactive session will explore how schools can adapt to protect students from online risks while also promoting positive digital engagement. The session focuses on practical, accessible strategies that don’t require technical expertise—just a commitment to student safety and wellbeing.

Key Topics:

  • Understanding the parallel between physical and digital safety
  • Emerging AI-enabled threats including synthetic image abuse, modern scams, and stalking 2.0
  • Impact of AI chatbots on relationships and social dynamics

Key Takeaways:

  • Practical frameworks for prevention and outreach
  • Strategies for supporting students experiencing technology-facilitated harm
  • Tech-enabled trauma-informed responses

Webinar Programme

 

 

16:00 – 16:05

 

Welcome and introductions

 

 

 

16.05 – 17.00

 

 

Prioritising Digital Safety in Schools

 

Speaker: Adam Dodge, Founder of EndTab (Ending Technology-Enabled Abuse)

 

 

17.00 – 17.30

 

Question and Answer Time

 

 

17.30

 

Close

 

 

Speaker Biography: 

As the founder of EndTAB.org (Ending Technology-Enabled Abuse), Adam’s work is characterized by his dedication to addressing the existing and future threats posed by technology to victims of crime and gender-based violence. He has written extensively on technology-enabled abuse, non-consensual pornography, and created the first resource guide for victims of Nonconsensual Deepfake Pornography. Adam spends a great deal of his time delivering innovative technology-enabled abuse presentations to organizations around the world. He is also a special advisor to the Coalition Against Stalkerware and sits on the World Economic Forum’s Pathways to Digital Justice Advisory Committee. Adam has been interviewed on the subject of tech-enabled abuse for Vogue, the Washington Post, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, SELF Magazine, Los Angeles Times, Gizmodo, GQ and the MIT Technology Review. A licensed attorney in California, he earned his JD by way of McGeorge and Hastings College of the Law.