Better Internet for Kids

Campaign directed towards parents. Using Safer Internet Day as a kick-off and, the “Social media 1-0-1” – was launched. The campaign – using Facebook as a platform, give parents a 3-step launch to get better knowledge of the four most used social media – and advice on what they should talk to their children about. The campaign leads to a website, as well as and printable fact sheets, with all four sets of insight and tips.

With 10 short tips, this resource aims to help parents accompany their children for a safe, responsible and positive use of the Internet.

A web page which includes educational materiel for children and parents. Includes lesson plans, comic, quizzes, posters e.t.c

A tv spot which promotes the best practices for being safe online.

Connected comprises five modules exploring young people’s rights and responsibilities online, emerging digital technologies and topics including big data and the data economy, deep fakes, false information and online wellbeing. The five modules are:
1. My Online Wellbeing
2. News, Information and Problems of False Information
3. Big Data & the Data Economy
4. My Rights Online
5. Publishing Online - Group Project

‘Big data’ has transformed the economy we live in. Over the last few decades, it’s become far cheaper to collect and store, and much more valuable to own and use. It’s now overtaken oil to become the most valuable resource in the world.

This short animation is one of the supporting animations for an education resource titled; Connected – an introduction to digital media literacy.

With so much information at our fingertips it can be easy to come across something online that isn’t quite as accurate or reliable as it should be. This kind of information is often called Fake News but a better description might be false information because it affects more than news stories.

This animation, explaining false information, supports the education resource Connected - an introduction to digital media literacy.

Als Feuerwehrmitglied bist du Teil einer großen Gemeinschaft, wo das „Wir“ über dem „Ich“ steht. Bedenke daher: Du hast eine Vorbildfunktion, auch auf deinen privaten Social Media Profilen und was du öffentlich kommunizierst und verbreitest, fällt auch auf deine Feuerwehr zurück. Dieser informative Flyer bietet Tipps & Infos für Feuerwehrmitglieder zum eigenen verantwortungsvollen Online-Auftritt.

The Media literacy in Finland policy document aims to clarify the field of media education and describe the strengths, values and principles of media education in Finland. This document also highlights areas for improvement and the related social, cultural and technological development trends.

Finnish Safer Internet Centre coordinated the policy process in collaboration with more than 100 different shareholders and the policy came into effect in 2020. You can read more about the process here: /web/portal/practice/awareness/detail?articleId=5519531

The main focus of Safelyonline project is the improvement of online medialiteracy levels among children and young poeple through the extensive media literacy education of their parents. More concretely, in the framework of this project, Gezinsbond and Child Focus (Belgian Safer Internet Centre) have been offering training to parents about the online media their children use daily. With about 150 training sessions every year, we are able to reach 4,500 parents.