Better Internet for Kids

Understanding teachers' perspectives on AI in Education (AIEd) is crucial for its effective integration into the educational framework. This paper aims to explore how teachers currently use AI and how it can enhance the educational process. We conducted a cross-national study spanning Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Ireland, and Armenia, surveying 1754 educators through an online questionnaire, addressing three research questions. Our first research question examines educators' understanding of AIEd, their skepticism, and its integration within schools.

#Generation2024 comprises two online questionnaires, one created for children and the other for teenagers. The questionnaire aimed at children includes responses from 629 students between the first and fourth years of primary school. 2,798 students, including those in the fifth and sixth years of primary education and all years of secondary education, completed the teens' questionnaire. In addition to this quantitative data, individual interviews and group discussions were also conducted in order to explore different themes in greater depth.

The Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (‎HBSC)‎ study is a large school-based survey carried out every four years in collaboration with the WHO Regional Office for Europe. This report, Volume 2 in the series, focuses on adolescent peer violence and bullying, using the unique HBSC evidence on adolescents aged 11, 13 and 15 years across 44 countries and regions in Europe, central Asia and Canada.

This research report presents a comprehensive study on media use and media literacy in Flanders and Brussels, including children and young people between the ages of 6 and 18. Focusing on young people's digital environments, the research investigates how this audience experiences cybersecurity, generative AI, and digital well-being, among other topics, in order to engage in a dialogue with children and young people about digital media. Data was collected through a common questionnaire on media use and digital literacy for children and young people.

The BEE SECURE Radar 2024 report presents survey results on how children and young people use the Internet and digital media. Drawing on the perspectives of parents, educators, and young people themselves, the report also includes feedback from training courses, interviews with young people, data from the BEE SECURE Helpline, and reports of illegal content collected by the BEE SECURE Stopline. The report assesses good practices and measures to ensure child and youth participation, awareness-raising, and prevention of potential harm or risks.

Children and media is a survey of children and young people's digital media habits.

This report is a partial report that belongs to the Children and Media 2024 survey. In this interim report, results are presented in the areas that shed light on children's media habits, as well as their access to equipment and technology. 
(Source: Norwegian Media Authority).

To gain more insight into the issues at play at the intersection of children’s rights and digitalization, UNICEF the Netherlands has partnered with Leiden University and Stichting Kennisnet to publish a collection of essays. In these essays, experts reflect on a variety of issues involving children’s rights in the digital world.

In this partial report, results are presented in the areas that illuminate children's views and experiences around harmful content, negative incidents online, sexual comments and nude images. The survey in this area has been voluntary to answer and has only been done among 13-18 year olds. 
(Source: Norwegian Media Authority)

In this partial report, data from the Parents and Media, and Children and Media surveys in 2024 are presented, which shed light on how parents with children between 1-17 years of age view the regulation of their children's media use, and then explain how children aged 9-18 respond to questions about their parents' regulation of their media use.
(Source: Norwegian Media Authority).

Main findings include: