Better Internet for Kids

In his book 1984, George Orwell detailed a dystopian world wherein a person or persona called “Big Brother” saw everything that people did and where the central government pushed its agenda through propaganda, spying, monitoring, and thought controls. That book was published in 1949.

With remote learning there are real concerns about loneliness, welfare and lack of interaction. It is important to find a way of keeping everyone in contact. Representatives of the Italian Youth Panel discuss in this article how digital education tools support their individual and collaborative work during the pandemic period.

The health crisis brought about by Covid-19 has generated a heightened need for information as a response to a situation of uncertainty and high emotional load, in which fake news and other informative content have grown dramatically. The aim of this work is to delve into the understanding of fake news from children and young people's perspective.

Social media provide new platforms that manifest media and peer influences on young people’ understanding of beauty towards an idealized notion. This article was written by the Italian Youth Panel and teenegers’ narrations of the relationship between self-presentationand peer comparison on social media.

The Better Internet for Kids (BIK) reviews of the year are typically released to coincide with Safer Internet Day celebrations each year.

These annual reports provide an overview of a multitude of stakeholder efforts to both protect and empower children and young people in their digital lives over the past year, when BIK has focused on making sure that young people are protected, respected, and equipped with the skills they need to thrive in the digital world.

Some highlights of 2020 include:

This interactive MOOC focuses on raising awareness of ethical, social and cyber security aspects of digital technology. The course includes a video zone for students and an education zone for teachers and lecturers. The video zone includes an introduction where explanation about the concept is given. The introduction is followed by nine thematic sections - AI, internet and law, secure password, IoT, risks to mobile apps security, secure payment, white-hat and black-hat hackers, phone´s lock screen, end-to-end encryption.

The aim of the leaflet is to draw the attention of parents to the book ON-LINE ZOO, which we offer for a free download both in the electronic text form and in the audio version. Especially during the Covid pandemic, the number of children who are active online is growing, as they spend more time at home than before and some even have distance learning there.

Kaip apsaugoti savo vaikus nuo netinkamo turinio, svetimų žmonių įtakos internete, kaip pelnyti vaikų pasitikėjimą, kad jie kreiptųsi pagalbos, iškilus problemoms? Šis komiksų pristatymas kviečia susimąstyti ir skirti vaikų skaitmeniniam gyvenimui daugiau dėmesio.

Kai vis daugiau laiko praleidžiama internete yra svarbu, kad žinotume, kaip apsaugoti savo skaitmeninį „Aš“. Šioje pamokoje patariama, atliekamos užduotys, kaip spręsti šias problemas.

The comic "About TIK-IOC and you" invites you to think about the need to act responsibly, respect others, be careful online.