Better Internet for Kids

'The First Digital Steps' is a resource on media literacy for children aged 0-6. It contains videos, different materials and guides for daycare and kindergarten professionals, children, parents and carers, and health visitors.

This classroom activity lets the students collaborate on a list of wishes for their parents on how to have a dialogue about digital habits. Afterwards, the parents gets the opportunity to give feedback to students’ wishes, and the feedback is presented to the students. The aim of the activity is to inspire both parents and their children to have an ongoing dialogue about digital habits, where both parties show mutual respect.

The activity was published by the Media Council for Children & Young People and Center for Digitale Youth Care on Safer Internet Day 2022.

The Media Council for Children and Young People and Save the Children Denmark have collaborated with the SIC DK National Youth Panel to create this teaching material on online communities. It has been created for the 7th-9th grade in Danish schools.

The goal of the teaching material is to help students recognize and understand dynamics in online communities, so that they can better contribute in making healthier communities and react and ask for help, if the communities become unhealthy.

This publication consists of a guide and a game, both targeted parents, who experience conflict in the household in relation to their children’s use of videogames. The guide provides information on why such conflicts can occur and suggestions for how to handle them. It presents different stories from everyday life where different conflicts around gaming habits are viewed from the perspective of the child/young person.

”Children and gaming” is a guide for parents about gaming. It provides insight into the positive elements of gaming as well as the things parents should be aware of and pay attention to.

It covers topics such as in-game purchases, PEGI, language and screen time. Accompanying each theme is informative and explanatory texts, followed by suggestions on how parents can engage in dialogue with their children. 

This publication is a guide about YouTube targeted parents. In Denmark, studies show that YouTube is the most popular social media among Danish children. This guide provides parents with knowledge, facts, a YouTube dictionary, explanation of YouTube genres and questions. The questions are meant to give inspiration to start a dialogue about YouTube between adult and child. Thereby, we encourage parents to involve themselves in their children’s digital life. The guide views YouTube through three different approaches children and young people may have to using the platform.

GDPR - WHAT? is an online teaching material targeted 3rd-9th grade. It supports teachers in engaging in dialogue with their students about the GDPR and digital self-defense. Through a variety of activities with films, podcasts and group discussions, children and young people are encouraged to think critically about how and where they share their personal data online.
For the younger students, the focus is on understanding what you share when you are online, whereas the older students focus on digital rights in relation the GDPR.

The Danish hotline also receive images of children who are not illegal but are problematic because they constitute a sexual exploitation of the child. These may include everyday pictures of children being placed in an adult pornographic context, or pictures and films receiving sexual commentary. These images are not protected by law but are a violation of children's right not to be sexually exploited. In this article, we explain the Copine scale, which describes images of children, from the innocent to the most abusive and illegal.

‘SHARED’ is a project about preventing and reducing online sexual harassment among young people by strengthening young people's social-digital skills in being able to interact with intimate images online. As part of the project, the book 'DELT - En bog til unge om digitale sexkrænkelser' (Danish: 'SHARED - A Book for Young People About Online Sexual Harassment) is published. It gives an insight into how online sharing without consent can affect the individual - and an entire youth generation.

“Digital Brilliant” (in Danish: Digital Genial) is an online toolbox that consists of exercises targeted parent-teacher meetings in 1st -6th grade. The purpose is to shed light on the children’s online life and the general digital wellbeing in the specific school class. The resource encourages a dialogue where experiences and knowledge are being shared, which can support the collaboration on digital topics between the parents and between the parents and the teachers.