Better Internet for Kids

The Croatian SIC has produced various educational materials as part of SID 2023. One of them is a short manual for employees of educational institutions „The role of parents in media education and protection of children on the Internet - How to work with parents?".

31% of 11-18 year olds have been exposed to racist content on their networks and 25% to hate speech related to religion. Incitement to hatred, violence or racial discrimination is an offence punishable by law.

InfoHunter - Online Hate Speech is a middle/high school interactive resource on online hate speech, to learn how to recognise and decipher online racial hate speech. Based on an explanatory video, this course helps teenagers acquire the right reflexes to recognise online hate speech and decipher the mechanisms on which it is based.

The teams have to discuss questions and topics on the screen with the help of their mentor. There are 4+1 topics in total, with a minimum of 5-5 minutes for each topic.
Answers can be submitted anonymously online via the ahaslides.com website, with the help of mentors, and will be displayed on a projector for all teams to see. Multiple comments can be submitted on a topic. At the end of the discussion, after each topic has been discussed, one participant/mentor from each team will be given the opportunity to summarise the discussion.

Each team has a deck of 14 cards. From these, the children draw cards, looking at what concept is on them, so that the mentor does not know what they have drawn. The aim is for the children to collectively tell their mentor what they have drawn and the mentor has to guess the concept. These could be words, concepts, platform names, word associations, anything related to safe internet use.

The Hungarian Safer Internet Centre prepared a cybersecurity quiz for the kids through Kahoot. 

As part of SID 2023 celebrations we have prepared a leaflet for teenagers older than 14 years on online nudity. On the internet, we can come across all kinds of content, including nudity - pornography. This leaflet explains what online pornography is and why it cannot be compared to real sex. It also describes the consequences of watching too much pornography and gives advice on what to do if you come across pornography and feel uncomfortable.

As part of SID 2023 celebrations we have prepared a poster for primary school pupils with some tips on what to do if they come across content online that makes them feel uncomfortable.
Around 3000 copies of the poster will be submitted to postal addresses of all Slovenian primary schools for hanging on the walls within school premises. The online version of the poster is also available online. Our goal is to reach as many young people as possible.

The text (at the moment only available in Slovenian) needs to be adapted to local languages.

As part of SID 2023 celebrations we organised a one-hour live online talk show for young people on the issue of inappropriate online content and its impact on teenagers. The first part of the show focused on the issue of online influencers who spread problematic beliefs, while the second part of the conversation focused on online pornography and the messages it conveys and the impact on children and adolescents.

This handbook is aimed at pedagogical professionals who work in child and youth welfare. Media and the Internet have become an integral part of the everyday lives of children, young people and their families, and thus also of the lives of pedagogical staff in child and youth welfare. Particularly in the field of child and youth welfare, it is important to support the addressees as much as possible, on the one hand by giving them the freedom to acquire media competence, but at the same time by offering educational opportunities.

A presentation for small kids (6-9 years old) focussing on reliability of online information.