Better Internet for Kids

We hebben de neiging om bij relaties en seksueel gedrag via nieuwe media, meteen het ergste te denken. Kinderen en jongeren experimenteren, dat hoort bij een normale seksuele ontwikkeling. Flirten gebeurt op een andere manier dan vroeger. Tot een paar jaar terug maakten we ons zorgen over het beeldmateriaal dat kinderen en jongeren opzoeken. Nu maken ze die foto’s en filmpjes ook zelf. Ze wisselen erotische berichtjes, spannende foto’s en filmpjes uit.

Poster om op te hangen in scholen met tips en tricks over sexting

Sex Thing is made by theatre company O’Kontreir from Schilde, Antwerp province, and premiered in Mechelen on Tuesday.

The show focuses on pupils in the second grade of secondary education, showing them the possible consequences of sexting – sending nude or sexual photos via social media. If for example a couple break up, one partner can take revenge by publishing explicit pictures of the other.

Hoe ga jij als leerkracht met sexting om en hoe moet je reageren in bepaalde situaties? Dat is niet altijd even gemakkelijk. Deze lesvoorbereiding rond ‘sexting’ werd ontwikkeld voor leerlingen van het secundair onderwijs. In deze les willen we met de leerlingen aan de slag gaan rond het thema “online media en seksualiteit”. Zo gaan we onder meer:

nadenken over welke foto’s je neemt en deelt
stilstaan bij het “recht van afbeelding”
reflecteren over
respect
empathie
vertrouwen
intimiteit & integriteit

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.