Better Internet for Kids

Media Literacy is important also in the early childhood education. We can see the influence and the importance of media in every child group: how they play, what they talk, how they are dressed and with the toys they play. There is a core curriculum for early childhood education (ECEC) in Finland that describes media education as one important part of the comprehensive education.

The Netflix checklist provides all the latest information on parental controls whilst showing you:

How to set up children’s accounts
How to add maturity ratings
How to block shows
How to lock profiles
How to turn autoplay on and off
How to access viewing history
The leaflet was created by SWGfL and UK Safer Internet Centre in collaboration with Netflix.

For a graduation project, Lyzza Panday created a recource for us, a documentary about sexting and online sexual assault. The documentary included several interviews with influencers and a guide on what to do after you've become a victim of online sexual assault.

A guide for all recources, helplines, institutes in the Netherlands with a program for prevention or response to incidents regarding sexting for teachers.

We noted that many teachers in the Netherlands didn't know what to do or what recources to use when it comes to sexting and online sexual abuse. Together with the government and school institutes we created a task force to compile all recources and organised them in two pdf-guides: one for primary education, and one for secondary education.

Together with het CCV (centre for crimeprevention and safety) we created an escaperoom-suitcase. The game is intented for children between 12 and 21 years old. It's a digital game in which young kids solve puzzles to prevent the characters in the game to become victims. Teachers can rent or buy the suitcase for their students.

Brochure for teachers and educators who conduct classes about various aspects of YouTube, such as: how youth is using this platform, who are the YouTubers, YouTube as a source of knowledge. Brochure contains four lesson’s scenarios based on interesting YouTube phenomena.

Leaflet is dedicated for parents. It contains the most important information about children’s favorite video platform, YouTube – its opportunities and threats.

This dossier discusses how the media deal with disinformation and the extent to which "fake news" poses a threat to press freedom. The dossier was released in the frame of the awareness raising campaign #checkyourfacts.

This dossier deals with disinformation in politics and is particularly concerned with the question of its influence on the results of political elections. The dossier was released in the frame of the #checkyourfacts awareness raising campaign.

Sometimes parents don’t realize that their child have access to online content from his/her device (family device) which is not considered as “family friendly” or “made for kids” and can be inappropriate to his age – violent abusive or sexually explicit. Child can face harmful content accidentally – surfing on the internet, watching videos or checking social media, searching seen or heard keywords by curiosity or receiving from friends or schoolmates direct links to the content that confuses, scares or upsets the child.