🧑🏫 EdTech needs to pass the test.
A new review of 2,100+ studies reveals major gaps in what we know about EdTech, from learning experiences and wellbeing to how different children are affected.
📖 Read more: 5rightsfoundation.com/resour…
#EdTech #ChildRights
Users: How Big Tech Took Control And How To Fight Back is out now.
Join Baroness Beeban Kidron, Professor Sonia Livingstone and Sir Peter Wanless today for a conversation on children's rights and the future of online safety.
Today | 4–5pm (BST)
Online
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Join author Baroness Beeban Kidron, Professor Sonia Livingstone and Sir Peter Wanless for the launch of Users: How Big Tech Took Control and How to Fight Back.
🗓️ Thursday, 25 June | 4–5pm (BST)
📍 Online (Zoom)
🔗: digital-futures-for-children…
🚨 New research suggests TikTok, Instagram and X are directing child accounts towards violent, sexualised and suicide-related content within minutes.
It's time to hold tech companies accountable for children's rights and safety online.📱
#ChildOnlineSafety
5rightsfoundation.com/resour…
What happens when the tools built to connect us are designed to divide, distract and control instead?
Join the online launch of Users, the new book by Beeban Kidron, in conversation with Sonia Livingstone and Peter Wanless.
Thu 25 June
4–5pm BST
Online
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Research from Steve Wood and the Digital Futures for Children centre: major platforms responded to early regulation - then stalled.
The framework exists. What's missing is enforcement and safety by design built in from the start.
🔗researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/…
#DigitalFutures4Children
💬 "The opportunity came in the form of one sentence."
Dr. Amani Abou-Zeid and Baroness Beeban Kidron join the #TechThisOut! podcast to reflect on years of hard-won progress for children's rights in the digital environment.
🎧open.spotify.com/episode/3NY…
Age-appropriate design is gaining ground across Latin America. As Brazil's ECA Digital enters into force, 5Rights and partners are driving momentum for tech accountability across the region.
➡️ 5rightsfoundation.com/moment…
It started with half a sentence in a policy document. It grew into legislation that changed the internet for millions of children.
🎧 The Season 1 finale of Tech This Out! is out now: open.spotify.com/episode/3NY…
#ChildRights #Podcast
🔜 The season 1 finale of 5Rights youth-led podcast Tech This Out! drops next week - Baroness Beeban Kidron and Dr. Amani Abou-Zeid reflect on years of hard-won progress for children online.
🎧 Catch up on season 1: open.spotify.com/show/4LXwiK…
🇬🇧 2/3 of UK children use AI chatbots - but without clear legal standards governing what these systems generate, they can expose children to harm.
Baroness Beeban Kidron is in the House of Lords today debating amendments for safeguards to protect them.
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Why are some of the world’s most elite schools turning away from screens?
In the latest edition of the #TechThisOut! podcast, 5Rights Youth Ambassador Mithesh speaks with Mark West (UNESCO) about whether EdTech is living up to its promises or leaving students behind.
🆕📢 5 years after General comment No. 25, too many digital products and services still prioritise engagement over children’s safety.
Our new report sets out a global blueprint to change this: 5rightsfoundation.com/resour…
Children didn’t choose to grow up in a digital world designed to exploit them. 5 years after GC25 affirmed their rights in the digital world, we join 55+ organizations calling on leaders to enforce rights-respecting, age-appropriate design.
5rightsfoundation.com/resour…
Join us & #DigitalFutures4Children to reflect on impact + launch 2 new #GC25 reports exploring global uptake and providing a best practices blueprint.
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🆕 Event: Five years of UNCRC General Comment No. 25.
Join 5Rights & #DigitalFutures4Children to reflect on impact + launch two new #GC25 reports exploring global uptake and providing a best practices blueprint.
🗓️ Mon 2 March, 12:00 CET
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🚨 🇬🇧 The UK regulator has fined Reddit £14.5m for failing to protect children’s data.
Relying on self-declared age is not enough – the rules are there, and they must be enforced to keep children safe.
📖 More in @thetimes: thetimes.com/uk/technology-u…
🆕 Event: Five years of UNCRC General Comment No. 25.
Join 5Rights & #DigitalFutures4Children to reflect on impact + launch two new #GC25 reports exploring global uptake and providing a best practices blueprint.
🗓️ Mon 2 March, 12:00 CET
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🆕 Event: Five years of UNCRC General Comment No. 25.
Join 5Rights & #DigitalFutures4Children to reflect on impact + launch two new #GC25 reports documenting best practices and assessing the global impact of GC25.
🗓️ Mon March 2nd, 2026 – 12:00 CET
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📚🤖 EdTech is transforming education, but at what cost?
Join 5Rights @MediaLSE #DFC for the event: “EdTech at the crossroads of pedagogy vs profit”.
⏰ 12th Feb 2026, 6:30 - 8pm (UTC)
📍In-person at LSE and online
🔗 Info + register: lse.ac.uk/events/edtech
#ChildRights
Students data is regularly being exploited in ways they may not be aware of.
5Rights Youth Ambassador Maximillian sits down with Patricia Kosseim, Info and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario (Canada) to uncover what happens behind the scenes.
open.spotify.com/episode/2FK…
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