Better Internet for Kids

The third story in the Childnet's Digiduck® series, focusing on the reliability of online information. Aims to get young children thinking about online content and help them understand that what they read or see online could be true, untrue, or someone's opinion.

The fourth story in Childnet's Digiduck series, dealing with online gaming. Other topics covered in the book include peer pressure, password sharing, and in-app purchases. The aim of this story is to help start conversations between children and adults about many aspects of online gaming, such as: the types of games that young children enjoy playing online and why how to tell if real money can be spent the social elements of gaming with others (e.g., keeping personal information safe) and what to do if someone is pressuring you to do something that you are unsure about.

Activities that are designed to be carried out after reading, ‘Digiduck’s Big Decision,’ ‘Digiduck’s Famous Friend,’ or ‘Detective Digiduck.’

An educational flyer for students, educators, and parents to help them realize that online gender-based violence is as important as physical violence, and in order to tackle the one we must also tackle the other.

A webpage with quizes that offer interactive educational purposes on online safety issues of different topics. The page is being constantly updated and five more quizes were added acompanying Back to School 2021.

A Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) of three individual modules for students aiming to educate them for a safer and better internet. The content of this MOOC are the topics of cyber-hygiene, personal data, and cyberbullying.

A page on the importance of strong passwords and the basic tips every online user should follow. The meaning of a person's identity is defined through our external features such as our biometric characteristics (eye color, fingerprints, etc.), our name, our date of birth, our signature. However, our online identity has a more dynamic character and arises mainly from our digital footprint: our online friends, what we share, the image we project about ourselves.

Safer Internet Centre Czech Republic designed, produced and distributed school boards and supporting educational materials to 4.200 registered primary schools (according to the official basic school database by Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports). Their goal is to alert pupils and students to possible pitfalls in the online world in a popular educational way. And if necessary, to serve as a guide for kids while seeking help.

Students from the Czech Youth Panel wrote a script and starred in a short video on the topic of Internet security. They have prepared a total of six topics based on situations that Internet users actually get into and then face unpleasant consequences:

• identity theft,
• sexual harassment,
• sharing all activities with the public,
• sharing of personal data,
• sharing unverified information,
• insult and humiliation.

The aim of the short video is to point out the absurdity of the behavior of some people in the online space.

The resource is comprised of a video called 'Home truths' which shows multiple offenders in a family home, talking to a child in an inappropriate way, in order to open parents' eyes to the potential dangers of their child being online and that this abuse could be happening right under their nose. This is a hard-hitting and impactful visual representation of the kind of abuse the IWF sees on a daily basis.
The resource is also a downloadable PDF which includes the TALK checklist, TALK stands for;
Talk- start talking to your child about online sexual abuse