Better Internet for Kids

The animated series with associated pedagogical material has been designed for children of different age groups. The section on media fears is aimed at very young children, and can be used by an adult to help the child overcome fears caused by the media. The following sections on first phone use and gaming are suitable for school children under 12. The aim is to help children use their own phone correctly and safely, and to implement fair play rules for all and reflect on a well-balanced media use. The fourth part deals with the pressures on young people from social media.

This anti-bullying educational resource is designed to support teachers in addressing the learning outcomes within the Junior Cycle SPHE course that relate to online bullying and abusive behaviour and to empower students to take action against online bullying, through their own positive actions and behaviours.This educational resource should be used as part of a whole education approach to preventing bullying. In delivering these lessons teachers are embedding anti-bullying education within the SPHE curriculum for junior cycle students. Teachers can use this resource:

Apart from the search engine itself, Google includes many other services and platforms such as the video portal YouTube, the navigation service Google Maps, the app store Google Play, the email service Gmail, the browser Chrome, the photo service Picasa, the online data storage service Drive and many more. To make it easier to manage Google services, there is a central platform, namely the Google Account. Users can make cross-platform privacy and security settings in the Google Account.

YouTube is a free video portal for watching, sharing and uploading videos. In this practical step-by-step privacy guideline we show you the most important settings for safe use.

Vinz and Lou discover that hidden advertising is everywhere on social networks! In this new episode, learn how to recognize hidden advertising, understand its impact and discover how to distinguish advertising from informative content, using 3 concrete examples to help you stay vigilant.

The video is accompanied by a teaching sheet for a one-hour workshop in a school or extra-curricular context.

School levels: Primary School/Middle School
Age group: 7-12 years old

Vinz has made a terrible discovery: streaming videos are polluting the environment! So what should he do? Stop watching videos online? Not necessarily! In this 2min video, Vinz and Lou explain all about streaming pollution and share their tips and tricks for reducing our impact on the environment.

School levels: Primary School/Middle School
Age group: 7-12 years old

Red flag! One of Vinz's friends showed him a pornographic video and Vinz has been asking himself a lot of questions ever since: is it normal to be shocked? Do you have to look like a porn star to have sex? Why is porn everywhere on the Internet? To help him answer these questions, he calls on Anne-Sixtine, from the DéClic association.

A 2-minute episode to start a discussion with 8-12 year-olds on the impact of porn images. The video is accompanied by a teaching sheet for a one-hour workshop in a school or extra-curricular context.

Through the in-depth analysis of some cases and good practices, the webinar discuss in particular the e-Safety tools developed within the Generazioni Connesse project: the e-Policy and the Educational Kit.

The video has been produced in Procida by the Italian youth panel with the support of the Giffoni Film Festival. The video explains the relevance of the e-policy process for all schools from the youth's point of view.

This video reports the entire event of the “Back to School 2023” held at the Ministry of Education on September 21st with the aim of promoting the ePolicy process through the involvement of schools, teachers, students, parents who have experienced the document and who have promoted the conscious and virtuous use of the internet and technologies with their peers and schools.