Cheryl Hayes has witnessed the impact of poor digital literacy on kids first-hand, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“We had friends with a nine-year-old daughter who ended up getting groomed on a [social media] platform,” says Ms. Hayes. “[There were] also kids down the street who had passwords and game tokens they spent years accumulating stolen because they befriended someone online.”

Ms. Hayes is the co-founder and chief business development officer at Cyber Legends, Inc., a company that delivers cybersafety and coding education to kids in Grades 1–8 through a gaming platform and provides curriculum-aligned teaching resources for educators and parents. She had been working in customer success at another tech company for nearly 10 years before she co-founded the company…(Read more).

Published on May 13, 2025
Written by Déjà Leonard
Originally published by The Globe and Mail