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The impact on learning of a lack of home internet more than doubled between 2018 and 2021.

Press Release – Network 4 Learning AUCKLAND, New Zealand, 8 July 2021 – More than 45 million potentially dangerous and distracting websites were blocked at schools every day during the second half of the 2020 school year, according to a new report released today by Network for Learning (N4L), the Crown company providing safe and smart internet services to New Zealand schools and kura. The second N4L Te Pūrongo Whakakitenga Data & Insights Reportreviews how 855,000 students and teachers across Aotearoa’s 2450+ schools and kura used the internet for learning from July – December 2020...

File photo. Photo: 123rf.com The network's report said internet use at the 2450 state and state integrated schools it covers increased 32 percent in the second half of last year compared to the first half when schools were shut for several weeks by the national pandemic lockdown. It said streaming media sites such as YouTube and Netflix accounted for 24 percent of the data consumed by the network in the last six months of 2020, and school internet users spent the most time on sites owned by Google, Apple and Microsoft. The report said schools faced 17 percent more cyber security threats in t...

SUPPLIED/Stuff Schools, along with many organisations around the world, are reporting a rise in the volume and severity of online threats since the Covid-19 pandemic Schools are blocking more websites to try to keep students safe, as cyber attacks and attempts to access harmful content increase after Covid-19 lockdown. A report published on Thursday by Network for Learning, the company that provides internet services to all state and state-integrated schools, highlighted a steep rise in online threats targeting schools. The second school term, from April 15 to July 3, included 22 weekdays o...

Thursday, 21 January 2021, 9:37 am  When students returned to school following the nationwide COVID-19 Alert Level 4 lockdown, their schools were targeted by more than 2,000 online threats per minute, according to a new report released today by Crown company Network for Learning (N4L). N4L’s first “data and insights” report reviews online safety and student use of its school-based internet services from April 15 to July 3, 2020 (Term 2). During this time, which includes 22 days of remote learning away from the “Managed Network”, the company blocked more than 120 million cyber secu...