Better Internet for Kids

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The training "Cybersecurity Essentials" provides teachers and educators with essential knowledge about internet security, preparing them to tackle specific challenges they may encounter in their daily personal or professional lives.

• Country: Luxembourg.
• Languages: Luxembourgish.
• Target audience: Teachers and educators.

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Connected has been specifically designed by Webwise for teachers of the Junior Cycle Digital Media Literacy Short Course who wish to explore online wellbeing, news, information and problems of false information, big data and the data economy, and online rights. Connected aims to empower young people to be effective, autonomous and safe users of technology and online media.

• Country: Ireland.
• Languages: English, Irish.
• Target audience: Teachers and educators.

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A teaching programme about digital behaviour, designed for middle school students, focusing on public health and life skills in accordance with the curriculum goals.

• Country: Norway.
• Languages: Norwegian.
• Target audience: Children and young people, teachers and educators.

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Association “Langas į ateitį” (“Window to the Future”) summarised its more than 10 years of experience, results and best practices of basic ICT skills training by developing the website www.epilietis.eu  (“Lithuania’s e-Citizen”).
This website is in Lithuanian as  it is aimed at Lithuanian citizens who want to improve their ICT skills and learn how to use public and private e-services. The learning material content presentation is designed for those who need encouragement and help in acquiring ICT skills: most relevant public and private e-services are presented in a simple way, along with useful links, helpful tips, learning material as well as tests for knowledge evaluation.

• Country: Lithuania.
• Languages: Lithuanian.
• Target audience: Teachers and educators.

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Faketicky provides workshops for primary and secondary schools in the field of media education, critical thinking, social networks and cyberbullying. Professional training for teachers on the topic of media education and its application in teaching. Interactive workshops on critical thinking, media literacy and social networks for all ages. The possibility of great flexibility within the topics discussed. In cooperation with the Václav Havel Library, we organize debates for the general public on various social topics. We look forward to seeing you at the next debate - follow our social media for more information.

• Country: Czech Republic.
• Languages: Czech.
• Target audience: Teachers and educators.

Lectures are being carried out in dozens of schools across Croatia. The exact dates and schedule for the school are being worked out.

The topics of the lectures are:
1. The first screens (preschoolers)
2. Screens and risks (preschoolers)
3. Online challenges
4. Problematic screen use (primary and secondary school)
5. Snapchat
6. The influence of social media on mental health
7. Peer violence
8. Sexting and sextortion
9. Video games
10. Hate speech

• Country: Croatia.
• Languages: Croatian.
• Target audience: Children and young people, teachers and educators.

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More and more often we hear the terms disinformation, propaganda, manipulative interpretation of facts, conspiracy myths.This material focuses on conspiracy myths, providing an understanding of why they exist, why some people believe in them and how they influence individual and societal beliefs.

With this material by the Latvian Safer Internet Centre, we will strengthen students' knowledge of the structure and geography of the world, their understanding of what science and facts are, and improve their media literacy and information literacy - knowledge and critical thinking are the surest way to being able to distinguish between scientifically proven facts and conspiracy myths!

• Country: Latvia.
• Languages: Latvian.
• Target audience: Teachers and educators.

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Lie Detectors is an independent media literacy organisation working in various countries in Europe. Lie Detectors runs a programme where trained journalists provide workshops and resources to help students critically analyse media content and identify misleading information. In 2017-2022, Lie Detectors visited 2,350 classrooms, and trained 1,650 teachers (46,900 pupils aged 10 to 15) in 5 countries (Austria, Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg and Switzerland).

• Country: Multiple.
• Languages: English, French, German.
• Target audience: Children and young people, teachers and educators.

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Would you like to try out Mediamanual (AT) tasks for building and deepening media skills? The workbook for secondary school levels I and II describes what students should know and be able to do in the area of ​​media education.

• Country: Austria.
• Languages: German.
• Target audience: Children and young people, teachers and educators.

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Media Literacy School is an online platform hosted by the National Audiovisual Institute, which offers researched information and free educational resources produced by Finnish media education organizations to support the work of media educators. We welcome all our partner organisations to upload their media education resources to the portal, so media educators in schools, youth work, libraries etc. can utilise them is their daily work.

• Country: Finland.
• Languages: Finnish, English, Swedish.
• Target audience: Teachers and educators.

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Training programme. A Media Coach is a contact point, someone trained and who can instruct an audience on media literacy, conduct workshops, lessons, and so on. In addition to MediaCoach in Belgium, countries like Sweden have similar initiatives focused on training educators to become media coaches. These coaches then integrate media literacy education into their work with students to develop critical media analysis skills.

• Country: Belgium.
• Languages: Dutch, French, English
• Target audience: Teachers and educators.
• Additional notes: Mediacoach video series 

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MLCE – "Media Literacy Case for Educators: Sustainably Scaling Media Literacy in Europe Empowering teachers, educators and librarians across Europe to be innovative, future-fit advocates of Media Literacy", provides teachers, trainers and librarians across Europe with a one-of-a-kind comprehensive set of co-developed and creative tools, resources, methods and materials.

MLCE is co-funded by the European Union project and is coordinated by Tactical Teach, in collaboration with European Schoolnet, International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA),  Save the Children (Italy).
The project has three objectives: developing effective methods of media literacy training centred on the needs of educators, creating engaging forms of media literacy engagement, and embedding effective media literacy tools and methods in European societal structures. The end result will be the Media Literacy Case for Educators: Creative Tools for Unpacking Media, which will include a Media Literacy Champions Course.

• Country: Multiple.
• Languages: English, French, German.
• Target audience: Children and young people, teachers and educators.
• Additional notes: MOOC "Empowering educators for the next digital decade"

MOOC 1 and MOOC 2.

Since 2014 the SIC consortium member ARNES provides (twice a year) massive online open course (MOOC) about the safe use of the internet and digital devices for teachers, pedagogical faculties students, parents and general public. In two national projects “Dvig digitalne kompetentnosti” and “Digitrajni učitelj” ARNES runs special editions of this course targeting teachers in schools involved in the two projects. Following the years of experience with a MOOC about the safe use of the internet and digital devices for teaches, pedagogical faculties students and parents in 2019, ARNES performed further massive online open course (MOOC) about the safe use of the internet and digital devices, called "MOST-VO", for pupils of second and third levels of elementary schools. The MOOC is a complementary tool for teachers and other educators who can use it in their activities. The course covers a very wide range of online safety-related topics, adopting a child-friendly perspective, including key measures such as recognising fraud online and checking the validity of the published content, cyberbullying, screentime management, and so on. 

• Country: Slovenia.
• Languages: Slovenian.
• Target audience: Children and young people, parents and caregivers, teachers and educators.

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The grant program offers a support mainly for schools, focusing on teaching digital, computer and media literacy and internet safety, with a portal offering a wide range of resources for teaching media literacy. 

• Country: Czech Republic.
• Languages: Czech.
• Target audience: Teachers and educators.

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In 2014, we founded the Association of Civic Education and Social Science Teachers, zs, and several reasons led us to do so. On the one hand, it was increasing the demands on our subject in the sense that the abilities and skills of our pupils were as good as possible. On the other hand, however, the hourly subsidies for teaching our subject were constantly decreasing. In many schools, we only have one hour a week on the basics of law, financial literacy, acquiring a political orientation, understanding one's own personality, the media and the international situation, because the emphasis is on other subjects. We also perceived the fluctuating level of preparedness of graduates of pedagogical universities, whose studies often do not sufficiently prepare them for the teaching profession. We were troubled by the almost non-existent communication between the teachers of our subject across the Czech Republic and insufficient methodological support in some teaching areas. However, the main reason for the establishment of our Association was something that we encountered in pupils regardless of the type of school they attend - a decrease in civic (self) awareness and the ability to navigate current social events. And because we believe that civic education and social sciences should prepare children for life in the 21st century and lead them to respect moral and legal values, we decided to do something about it. We know that we have to start with ourselves, that is why in the Association we focus on supporting teachers (on knowledge and work methods) and we are looking for ways to support their professional development and open cooperation.

• Country: Czech Republic.
• Languages: Czech.
• Target audience: Teachers and educators.

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One World in Schools (JSNS.CZ) (SIC CZ) provides educational programmes, seminars, webinars, conferences for teachers and other educators, librarians.

• Country: Czech Republic.
• Languages: Czech, English.
• Target audience: Teachers and educators.

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In cooperation with The Ministry of Education, Science and Sport in Slovenia we have organised on 1st February 2022 an online educational talk event on which we invited three experts for internet scams and disinformation. The event started with address from Minister PhD Simona Kustec and short presentations from speakers. The keynote speakers came from the Slovenian CERT, ARNES and the online newspaper for children Časoris. Participants learned about the most common scams targeting teachers, how to recognise and protect themselves from them, how to recognise misinformation on the internet and which sources to trust. The plenary session ended with a practical presentation of workshops on disinformation and a presentation of materials that teachers can use in the classroom. The event ended with a discussion on the questions submitted by the participants. The event was watched by more than 700 teachers and other education staff on the first day. This was the central SID 2022 event.

• Country: Slovenia.
• Languages: Slovenian.
• Target audience: Teachers and educators.

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In 2020, the company Dataninja launched Open the Box in the midst of the pandemic as an innovative media, data and AI (artificial intelligence) literacy project, targeting teachers and educators to spread digital skills among 11-18-year-old students in Italy (Cf. Article in MLA Newsletter, Open the Box empowering a new generation of Italian teachers). Over the period 2020-2023, Open the Box reached 5,000 teachers, involved 30,000 students and completed 900 workshops. During the targeting phase, 250,000 teachers were reached with the digital campaigns which led to 5,000 signups for the free resources of the Open the Box platform. 2,500 teachers actively engaged in workshops, learning cafés or by providing articles for the project newsletter, of which 1,500 completed courses.

• Country: Italy.
• Languages: Italian, English.
• Target audience: Children and young people, teachers and educators.

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Our Rights: teachers for children's rights is an initiative aiming to increase the capacities of teachers, support educators, psychologists and social workers on children's rights, based on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Albanian legislation. The project was implemented with the support of the Slovenian Embassy in Tirana.

• Country: Albania.
• Languages: Albanian.
• Target audience: Teachers and educators.

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Learn to identify and decipher online hate speech with middle and high school students.

• Country: France.
• Languages: French.
• Target audience: Teachers and educators  (middle and high school).

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A set of teaching activities for classes. The activities are focused on internet safety. (UPOL a e-bezpeci.cz 2022)

• Country: Czech Republic.
• Languages: Czech.
• Target audience: Teachers and educators.

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Seznam.cz organises online courses, Media Education Academy for Teachers, Media Education Festival. As part of the Seznam project, we cooperate with the media with primary and secondary school teachers, providing them with the background to create a comprehensive and practically usable methodology for teaching media education. We offer teachers from all over the Czech Republic free participation in online courses. Within ninety minutes, they will get to know the proposed modules and methodologies and the principle of teaching them in their own classes. Every summer we organize the Media Education Festival, the only event of its kind in the Czech Republic, which is intended for interested pedagogues and librarians. The several-day festival consists of workshops, demonstration lessons and visits to domestic newsrooms. The academy helps teachers who have already been educated in media education topics in the past, but have not yet applied media education in teaching or are just starting to do so.

• Country: Czech Republic.
• Languages: Czech.
• Target audience: Teachers and educators.

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The aim is to support the knowledge and skills of educational technologists and internal school educators in their organisation to teach digital safety issues to the teachers. 

• Country: Estonia.
• Languages: Estonian.
• Target audience: Teachers and educators.

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Comprehensive school development programme that has been operating in Poland since 2002. School with Class runs educational programmes for schools, headteachers, and teachers, helping them to introduce new ways of working that go beyond usual practices in teaching and in school relations. They organise free training, courses and webinars, and prepare ready-made lesson scenarios, educational materials, publications and guides. The School with Class Foundation was founded in 2015 in Warsaw and is a spin-off from a large and very successful nationwide initial educational programme. The Foundation has already collaborated with over 9,500 schools, 150,000 teachers and over a million students. Each year it works with a vast network of schools (over 2,500 a year) both around Poland and abroad.

• Country: Poland.
• Languages: Polish, English.
• Target audience: Children and young people, teachers and educators.

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At our workshops, we teach people of all age groups to think critically and navigate in a demanding information environment. Workshops focused on information literacy on social networks and ways to move responsibly in the online world. As part of the workshops, we involve the participants in several activities, which we then reflect on together. They will practice not only argumentation, but also critical and analytical thinking. Here, the lecturer is mainly in the role of a guide who helps the participants to acquire new knowledge, skills and attitudes.

• Country: Czech Republic.
• Languages: Czech.
• Target audience: Children and young people, teachers and educators.