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Parent Online Safety Tips June 4th

Alan Mackenzie Online Safety Weekly Update

Every week e-safety adviser Alan Mackenzie sends me weekly updates. They are useful teaching resources but also parent guides to keep you up to date with current trends.

Here are a few tips from this week’s updates:

For Parents – Fortnite and AI

Parent Online Advice - Fortnite - New AI Feature

Fortnite continues to be one of the most popular games played by children and young people. The game is continually being updated with new features and in their latest update Epic Games has introduced an AI feature where players can talk to characters like Darth Vader.

As with anything like this, it’s questionable whether Epic Games have really thought this through or are they just jumping on the bandwagon of AI where everyone is seemingly introducing it.

Wayne Denner has written a blog post about this, including some advice for parents including the parental settings for the new AI feature. You can find the blog post HERE.

Louise Plummer, Digital Marketing and Social Media Manager