Better Internet for Kids

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.

Nowadays children grow up surrounded by technology and develop from an early age the ability to be online alone. Today, more than ever, it is necessary to alert them to the risks and, at the same time, make them aware of digital safety. Thus, ZigZaga na Net podcast was launched in 2019, combining entertainment and education.
ZigZaga na Net is a Zig Zag Radio podcast in collaboration with some of the partners of the Portuguese Safer Internet Centre Consortium: National Cybersecurity Centre, the Foundation for Science and Technology and the Directorate-General for Education.

These cards are for professionals working with children. Cards can be used to increase a child's knowledge, skills and ability to recognize online grooming. The cards are targeted at children ages 9-12, but are also applicable to slightly older and younger age groups. The child's cards have the same image on one side as the adult's card on the other side and the subject of the card on the other side.

More information (in Finnish): https://pelastakaalapset.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/main/2022/03/03111224/nettivihje_kortit_2021_ohje.pdf

The book ZigZaga na Net, inspired by the stories of the 1st season of the podcast ZigZaga na Net, was developed in partnership between CIS (CNCS) and SeguraNet (DGE) - Awareness Centres of the Portuguese Safer Internet Centre - and ZigZag Radio.

The Protect and support guide is aimed at the parents of 11–17-year-olds. It has information on sexuality, sexual education, safety skill education, and child sexual abuse. The guide has advice on how a parent can help keep their child safer online and how to act if a child discloses an experience of sexual abuse. The Protect and support guide also includes information on the Finnish Hotline Nettivihje and on how to report to the hotline.

An e-book from Childnet translated into Greek. Additional themes covered include: Using images online, Keeping personal information safe, the identity of other internet users, password sharing, and in-app purchasing.

This methodological material is designed to help the media look at the “inside” of messages, so that it can be easier to understand how the media can mislead us by creating bubbles of false information that lead to misconceptions about existing reality. This media literacy methodological material will help to learn how to recognize and react to misleading information and reduce its negative impact.

These are milestones of the methodological material: how do social networks work and what impact do they have on us? In order to educate conscious and responsible users of media information, students should understand the importance of considering the target audience, quality, authenticity, credibility, and potential impact or consequences of the message.

This methodological material is designed to help you look at the messages created by the media "from within" in order to make it easier to understand how the media can mislead us by creating bubbles of false information, which in turn help to form a misconception about reality. How to identify misleading information and how to react to it, to reduce its negative impact?

This methodological material is designed to help you look at the messages created by the media "from within" to make it easier to understand how the media can mislead us into creating bubbles of false information, which in turn helps us to form a misconception about existing reality. This lesson will help to teach how to recognize misleading information and how to respond to it, to reduce its negative impact.