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Gilbert Knows helps 5-12 year olds understand and safely enjoy the technology in their lives, drones, smartwatches, game chat, AI and whatever arrives next. Here's everything you'd want to check before letting a child loose on it.
How we keep this safe
- Nothing to type into. No chat, no comments, no profiles, no uploads, there is no mechanism for anyone to contact your child here.
- No data. At all. No accounts, no cookies, no analytics, no tracking. Progress badges live only on your own device.
- A walled garden. No external links in the children's pages. The only phone number on the site is Childline (0800 1111).
- Safety woven in, not bolted on. Every topic carries its safety habit inside it, the drone game teaches the Drone Code; the chat lesson builds mute/block/report muscle memory. Content follows the UKCIS "Education for a Connected World" framework strands.
- No dark patterns. No streaks, no guilt, no timers, nothing to buy.
The dinner-table questions
Every adventure ends by nudging your child to ask you a question, because a child who chats with their adults about the internet is the single best-protected child on it. Here's the full list, so you're never ambushed:
Something worrying happened online?
- Talk first, react second, children go quiet if telling an adult means losing the tablet.
- Save the evidence (screenshots), then report: in-app report buttons work, and CEOP (ceop.police.uk) handles anything involving contact from adults. Childline: 0800 1111.
Are you a teacher?
There's a free printable teacher pack: all 28 adventures mapped to National Curriculum Computing and Education for a Connected World, plus a Safer Internet Day assembly outline. Gilbert Knows at School →