Better Internet for Kids

Your guide to : 

• Talking to your kid about artificial intelligence (AI).
• Building healthy AI habits.
• Developing AI literacy.
  
   

The aim of this game is to raise awareness among children and young people of the subject of grooming.

GrooMix helps young people to react appropriately to messages from strangers, detect inappropriate comments and reject solicitations that undermine their integrity.

As a teacher or facilitator, you can make the young people in your group aware of the risks they may encounter when chatting with strangers, but you can also tell them about the benefits of online friendships and relationships.

What does cyberbullying look like and how does its victim feel? This is what the educational game DigiStories: Nela deals with. It is mainly intended for the second grade of primary schools.

To avoid giving online groomers free rein, it is important to arm children against groomer tactics. That's why Child Focus built the 'OK Groomer' game in the virtual universe of Roblox: an online platform in which millions of children play and create games every day.
In various mini-games, grooming tactics come to life as bad guys. Players will learn to identify, report and block these tricksters.

To avoid giving online groomers free rein, it is important to arm children against groomer tactics. That's why Child Focus built the 'OK Groomer' game in the virtual universe of Roblox: an online platform in which millions of children play and create games every day.
In various mini-games, grooming tactics come to life as bad guys. Players will learn to identify, report and block these tricksters.

Girl Power Squad is the first free tool in the world that works around the sensitive phenomenon of child sex trafficking.
What is it about? Adding awareness, working on and improving empowerment and assertiveness with vulnerable girls. More specifically, the tool is aimed at the most vulnerable girls in facilities for youth assistance from the age of 11, to improve their empowerment in order not to become victim of pimps and end up in prostitution or other criminal activities.

Girl Power Squad is the first free tool in the world that works around the sensitive phenomenon of child sex trafficking.
What is it about? Adding awareness, working on and improving empowerment and assertiveness with vulnerable girls. More specifically, the tool is aimed at the most vulnerable girls in facilities for youth assistance from the age of 11, to improve their empowerment in order not to become victim of pimps and end up in prostitution or other criminal activities.

The Digiduck Activity Menu includes a range of teaching and learning activities designed for educators to use with children aged 3-7 years old. The activities are based on the first three books in the Digiduck series and include:
- quick creative activities,
- quick discussion activities,
- quick writing activities,
- longer activities with supporting resources and worksheets.

Presentation in easy language to give lectures in special schools for children with mental disabilities. To make sure that children with mental disabilities understand the information provided, it has to be adapted to their special needs - less text, easy language, bigger fonts, more visual information (pictures, videos) etc.

Online friendship or abuse? Innocent questions or attempted grooming?
A self-help test at sos.drossinternets.lv helps to recognize grooming on the internet. Children and young people, as well as parents and educators are invited to fill out the self-help test developed by experts from the Latvian Safer Internet Centre, the State Police and State Inspectorate for the Protection of Children's rights to test how safe the online friendship is, to learn how to recognize grooming cases and where to seek for a help.

Tool available in English at en.sos.drossinternets.lv