Better Internet for Kids

This Leaflet provides some top tips for safe social media use and addresses the gaming disorder and excessive online use.

An educational flyer for students, educators, and parents to help them realize that online gender-based violence is as important as physical violence, and in order to tackle the one we must also tackle the other.

A Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) of three individual modules for students aiming to educate them for a safer and better internet. The content of this MOOC are the topics of cyber-hygiene, personal data, and cyberbullying.

A page on the importance of strong passwords and the basic tips every online user should follow. The meaning of a person's identity is defined through our external features such as our biometric characteristics (eye color, fingerprints, etc.), our name, our date of birth, our signature. However, our online identity has a more dynamic character and arises mainly from our digital footprint: our online friends, what we share, the image we project about ourselves.

A webpage with quizes that offer interactive educational purposes on online safety issues of different topics. The page is being constantly updated and five more quizes were added acompanying Back to School 2021.

The third story in the Childnet's Digiduck® series, focusing on the reliability of online information. Aims to get young children thinking about online content and help them understand that what they read or see online could be true, untrue, or someone's opinion.

The fourth story in Childnet's Digiduck series, dealing with online gaming. Other topics covered in the book include peer pressure, password sharing, and in-app purchases. The aim of this story is to help start conversations between children and adults about many aspects of online gaming, such as: the types of games that young children enjoy playing online and why how to tell if real money can be spent the social elements of gaming with others (e.g., keeping personal information safe) and what to do if someone is pressuring you to do something that you are unsure about.

Activities that are designed to be carried out after reading, ‘Digiduck’s Big Decision,’ ‘Digiduck’s Famous Friend,’ or ‘Detective Digiduck.’

Working with people with a mental disability means that you regularly have to do with clients' online vulnerability. This group is more often a victim of online abuse such as cyberbullying, (shame) sexting and grooming. But a life without internet is not an option in this digital world. Digital media offer countless opportunities. Apps, videos and social media provide clients with fun, creativity, social contact and more direction over their own lives. What do you do to empower clients online? And do you know how to make full use of the opportunities?

A web page with educational material.