Digital Technology

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Navigating the Digital Playground: A Guide to Roblox

For many of us, the mention of Roblox can feel like learning a foreign language. It isn’t just one game; it is a massive universe of millions of user-created experiences. While this offers incredible opportunities for our children to be creative and social, it can also feel quite daunting. As parents, our priority is ensuring they stay safe while finding that healthy middle ground between 'screen time' and 'green time.'

Achieving that balance is often easier said than done. It’s tricky to keep up with the latest updates, and we don't always know which buttons to toggle to protect our kids from unvetted content or unwanted contact. Fortunately, Roblox has recently introduced updated parental controls that allow you to link your account to your child’s, giving you the ability to set spending limits, manage chat settings, and even monitor their daily screen time from your own device.

To help you navigate these settings with confidence, security.org has put together an excellent, step-by-step guide. It breaks down how to customize the platform to suit your family’s needs, ensuring your children can enjoy their digital adventures while you enjoy some peace of mind.

How to Set Up Parental Controls on Roblox: A Step-by-Step Guide | Security.org

Inform and Empower

In today’s digital world, it is more important than ever that our children learn how to stay safe and develop a healthy mindset online. This includes helping them recognise their body signals and feelings so they can better understand how they’re coping and know when they might need support. It also means teaching them simple but important habits like keeping their devices and accounts secure by using strong, unique passwords, not sharing login details, and being careful about who can access their devices.

Our teachers continue to support students in learning about safe and responsible online behaviour, and this learning is most effective when it is also reinforced at home. Children naturally love technology, so guiding them to use it safely, take regular healthy breaks, and build good habits helps them develop into responsible digital citizens in the long run. By working together, we can support our children to feel confident, balanced, and safe in both their online and offline worlds.

Below are some helpful posters from the Inform and Empower website that provide practical tips and guidance for families to support safe and positive online habits at home.

Allison Bayliss

St John's eLearning Leader