Better Internet for Kids

These educational tools are designed to facilitate understanding and cultivate critical thinking among students, offering practical activities and debates that address the importance of discernment in the digital age. They are used to guide the educational process, helping students identify and evaluate online content, manage emotions, and develop essential skills in combating digital misinformation.

These worksheets serve as structured tools aimed at strengthening critical thinking abilities essential for navigating and combatting online disinformation, providing tailored exercises and activities suitable for students across various age groups. Designed to reinforce critical thinking skills in the context of combating online disinformation, they offer practical exercises and engaging tasks that empower students to discern misinformation, evaluate sources, and make informed decisions in the digital environment.

The study represents an investigation of the impact of cyberbullying on children and adolescents, conducted through an online survey targeting individuals aged 8 to 17 who have internet access. 

The primary goal of this study is to analyse the frequency, types, and consequences of cyberbullying on young people, as well as how they perceive their own experiences and react to them. The results obtained will provide essential insights for understanding and managing this phenomenon in the online environment.

"Don't let the burden of cyberbullying crush you!" is an initiative aimed at addressing the effects and risks of cyberbullying on children and young people, emphasising the importance of digital education. 

The initiative encourages the use of available video resources and teaching materials to initiate discussions on cyberbullying prevention and intervention strategies. Participants are urged to understand responsible Internet use and to learn methods to mitigate the risks they may encounter online.

These educational activity scenarios, tailored for each educational level, are designed to help preschoolers and students understand the risks present in the online environment and how to protect themselves. 

Each scenario presents a moral story and key questions that teachers can address, recommendations, as well as activities that parents can do at home with their children based on the themes covered.

An educational guide for parents that highlights ten risks in the online environment.

The Internet can be
a „good servant but a bad master“.
Read our ten commandments carefully,
and if you don‘t understand something
or have questions, talk to your parents,
or call our helpline.

The Media Council for Children and young people developed a webresource providing parents with information on the three popular platforms Roblox, TikTok and Snap Chat.
The guides include short explainervideos on each platforms and explains what parents should know, if their children wants to use the platforms or are already active users.

Furthermore, it contains a question-generator, providing parents with specific questions to encourage dialogue between child and parent. The questions where developed in collaboration with children.

The Austrian awareness center Saferinternet.at inquires each year: Which social networks do young people in Austria use? Which platforms are trending, which get less important? The results are published with the Youth Internet Monitor (www.jugendinternetmonitor.at). The survey was conducted in December 2023. 400 young people between 11 and 17 years old were asked. The survey was published in March 2024 and is representative of the younger generation of Austria.

In porn, young people are confronted with many images and sex practices without them being categorized. Porn is also often one-sided and clichéd when it comes to body ideals. Adults are fully aware that porn is mostly staged films with cast actors. For young people, however, the images can create enormous pressure and give them the feeling of being "wrong".

The klicksafe quiz on porn myths helps young people aged 14 and older to get to the bottom of unrealistic pornographic content. Nine questions are used to playfully debunk porn myths and explain them in an understandable way.