Better Internet for Kids

Denis Baš, Ph.D. med. spec. pediat., explains in a video exactly when we can give digital devices to a child and how much time the youngster can use them per day. This video was developed in cooperation with Slovenian paediatric Association.

The webinar was prepared by external colleagues of the Awareness Centre Safe.si Benjamin Lesjak, PhD, who presented the legal aspects, and Tjaša Jerman Kuželički, who presented the general aspects of safe internet use in education and home schooling.

The Danish hotline also receive images of children who are not illegal but are problematic because they constitute a sexual exploitation of the child. These may include everyday pictures of children being placed in an adult pornographic context, or pictures and films receiving sexual commentary. These images are not protected by law but are a violation of children's right not to be sexually exploited. In this article, we explain the Copine scale, which describes images of children, from the innocent to the most abusive and illegal.

Part four of the series "new media new challenges" takes a closer look at the popular video sharing platform. The new teaching material provides information on critical aspects, such as unrestrained celebrated consumption, the influence of advertising, and problematic role models with regard to political opinion-forming or body images.The use of the material is recommended from class 6 upwards. Additional worksheets are available on www.klicksafe.de.

In this activity you will be able to identify the most common advertising formats for Internet multimedia content. This video accompanies the didactical activity: Advertising aimed at minors on Internet video platforms URL /group/guest/capacity/resource-lab/gallery?resourceId=26894
(Spanish language video with English subtitles)

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/embed/x6cUjAOSAaI?&rel=0&hl=en&cc_lang_pref=en&cc_load_policy=1

Pedagogycal resource about how to recognize and analyze the advertising present in the contents of videos on the Internet aimed at minors.
The resource includes an explanatory video "Advertising and minors on the Internet videos" (Spanish language video with English subtitles), so pupils check the different advertising formats and discuss in groups how this content impacts on their online consumption habits.
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This is a guide addressed to teacher trainers who will conduct a series of workshops with their colleagues. It tackles digital citizenship, online safety, media education and online resources. It provides theoretical aspects of each concept, good practice examples, graphs and theories, examples of activities to be conducted in class but also volunteering opportunities for both teachers and students.

A poster resource from the UK Safer Internet Centre that was created in response to COVID-19 and the need of schools to understand what they should consider to enable safe remote learning.
As everywhere else in the world, schools in the UK were affected by the closures and found themselves in a situation where they had to quickly put in place all necessary steps to enable staff to work safely at home as well as pupil to continue learning safely from home too.

Board game aims to improve pupil’s skills to analyse information and assess online risks as well as understand consequences of negative behaviour on the internet. Board game consists of 10 comics reflecting different problematic situations online and 20 tasks to look at each of the situation using task cards, and also evaluate themselves filling self-assessment work sheets. Board game is created in a way to make pupils think, identify risks, find solutions, predict how each situation can evolve, also think critically when analysing and sharing online information.

Throughout 2018 and 2019 Center for Digital Youth Care have been gathering information and conducting observations into anti-women and -equality environments online. The initial digital and pedagogical analysis is represented in the Danish report ‘Vrede unge mænd’ (Angry Young Men), and is currently awaiting translation.