Better Internet for Kids

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

Since many years, chainletters are a challenge for rather young whatsApp users in Austria. These chainletters threaten with monsters sleeping under the bed, having the kids parents die or being hunted by ghosts. But they alsosuggest that nobody likes them, if they don't get chainletters themselves in WhatsApp. Chainletters in WhatsApp is usually ignored by surrounding adults, because it is such an old phenomen. Therefore kids feel alone with their lacking competence to judge the content. The chainletters cannot be procecuted by law, since it is never clear who is the author originally.

The cyberbullying kit consists of three parts and is suitable for individuals with intellectual disabilities aged 12 and older. It is aimed at carers and other professionals who want to raise awareness on this issue.
The first part, consists of explaining cyberbullying in general and providing advice when dealing with this issue by working with illustrations and an explanatory video. Parts 2 and 3 of the kit serve to repeat the content (from part 1) in a playful way.

Not all rules from face-to-face teaching can be easily transferred to distance teaching - this can lead to problems. With the background image "Our rules for video chat", teachers can easily communicate the three most important rules to the participants. Simply download the image and insert it as a background image in the video chat programme you are using.

We also created a poster with the three rules and space to add own rules.

With this family checklist, parents and their children can start a conversation about the contents of the brochure "Do you still trust or are you checking?" ("Vertraust du noch oder checkst du schon?") and work out tasks together on the topic of fake news and conspiracy theories.

The use of streaming services such as Netflix, Disney+ or Amazon Prime Video is part of everyday life for many families. Of course, it is not only the parents who watch, but many children also watch or even use the services on their own. This detailed guide shows how parents can safely set different streaming services for their children.

Fifth issue of the series "Mobile media - new challenges" focusing on digital wellbeing
Working material for the classroom