Better Internet for Kids

The digital week (campaign)

The Digital Week is a participative and decentralized event that offers hundreds of activities around the digital throughout Wallonia and Brussels (Belgium).

It concerns all audiences willing to discover, understand and test new web and digital technologies.

The last edition of Digital Week took place from October 16 to 27, 2017, and focused on digital democracy.

Designed as a resource for animators and educators, this online tool invites to decode rumors, misinformation, propaganda and hyperdistrust towards media.
The tool helps to take stock of this complex subject, to decode it, to put it in debate, in activities and in exercises. It allows to approach the conspiracy theory by taking a step back from this particular kind of information, amplified by Internet.
It consists of 14 thematic capsules, 6 capsules of exercices and an educational booklet to discuss media literacy with young people

The website www.epilietis.eu, which is dedicated for independent learning of e-services, contains a section with various internet safety training materials: tests, lesson plans, games, webinars and videos, etc. These materials are available for all educators to select and use for their actvities with kids, adolescents or parents.

Child Focus is happy to present sexting.be: a platform that gathers information, tools and resources for a wide variety of target groups around the topic of... sexting. By targeting parents, schools, teachers & youngsters themselves, the platform offers a 360° approach in awareness raising.

What is in it (for you) besides articles, our training offer and information?

- Schools: A policy enhancing tool than allows schools to develop a tailor made policy in orde to prevent sexting to go wrong and how to handle sexting that DID go wrong.

- Classroom level:

Follow mum and munchkin in these three videos from the campaign ‘Parents as digital role models’. With a humorous twist the videos put spot on situations like image sharing and digital privacy where parents not always are the perfect role models. The videos work both as a reminder to parents, and can kick start a dialogue on online behaviour.

The videos were produced as a part of the Danish Safer Internet Day campaign 2017.

Watch the videos in Danish with English subtitles in the video gallery.

Dr John Sharry, Founder Parents Plus Charity offers advice on introducing technology to your child.

Dr John Sharry, Founder Parents Plus Charity offers practical advice on dealing with conflict around technology use in the home.

Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist Colman Noctor offers advice for parents on talking to your child about online pornography.

Simon Grehan, Project Officer with Webwise offers some advice for parents on how to deal with cyberbullying.

Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist Colman Noctor offers advice for parents on talking to your child about online pornography.