Austria
Wahr oder falsch im Internet? Informationskompetenz in der digitalen Welt
This teacher's handbook focuses on the topic of usage and verification of internet-based sources, such as text and images. It is a handbook for teachers of all age groups. It offers a short overview over each topic and a classroom activity in each field. Topics covered include: • How to use search engines efficiently • How to validate sources from the internet • How to use Wikipedia • How to find experts on the internet • How to detect hoaxes on the internet • How to detect photoshoped images and pictures • How to detect advertising • How to detect false identities on the internet • How to detect internet fraud.
This handbook for teachers is offered in the German language, but one classroom activity is in English.
Language: German
Target audience: teacher
Age range: 6 - 18
Download the handbook here.
Czech Republic
iSejf is the permanent competition where children create thematic content. A new theme is opened each month and children are invited to create multimedia content - images, movies, stories, lyrics - depending on the given topic.
Language: Czech
Target audience: counsellor, learner, manager, other, parent, teacher
Age range: 6 - 16
Access the competition here.
Denmark
So you got naked online?/Har du været nøgen på nettet?
The material, "So you got naked online?" ("Har du været nøgen på nettet?") provides practical tools for children and young people who have experienced their intimate pictures being shared.
Language: Danish
Target audience: learner
Age range: 12 - 15
Download the resource here.
Estonia
Board game ‘Travelling through internet'
The board game ‘Travelling through internet' is a fun, educational game for 8-15-year-old children. The aim of the game is to travel through the internet, answering different questions, solving eSafety-related problems and describing words with gestures.
Language: Estonian
Target audience: learner, other, parent, teacher
Age range: > 8
Access the resource here.
Know your online friends!
The Estonian Child Helpline 116111 video aims to inform children about different threats online, especially requests for personal information such as photos. If someone starts to threaten, bully you or is mean to you, be smart and call 116111 or contact us at www.lasteabi.ee.
Language: Estonian
Target audience: learner
Age range: 7 - 16
Access the video here.
Germany
Knowhow for young users
Klicksafe invites teachers of all subjects to read about new technology and the world wide web of today. Topics referring to digital media are discussed thoroughly. For example topics like mobbing, anonymity online, chat rooms, data security etc., are all covered. The goal is to provide teachers with information on web safety and to offer them classroom material in order to help them to pass on the information to students adequately.
Language: German
Target audience: learner, teacher
Age range: 10 - 18
Access the resource here.
Greece
As cyberbullying has recently been identified as the number one issue on a European scale among Insafe helplines, the Greek Awareness Centre created a dedicated A4 flyer tackling this issue, entitled "What is cyberbullying?".
Language: Greek
Target audience: counsellor, learner, other, parent, teacher
Age range: 9 - 0
Access the resource here.
Iceland
Enter Cyber Town
The courses are delivered using 'Prezi' which allows them to be navigated with great simplicity – much like flicking through the pages of a story book. The first two courses, for children 5-9, contain a professionally recorded narrative sound track. The first of the two courses, which features "Embla the Cyber Dog" as the star, also contains a sing-along song.
Language: English
Target audience: learner, parent, teacher
Age range: 5 - 20
Access the courses here.
Hungary
Origami game on safer internet use
The origami game is an adaptation of the Maltese resourceby localising the text to Hungarian. The main objective is to motivate young people to learn about online safety in an interesting and engaging way. It's a paper game you need to cut and fold. Two or more people can play it.
Language: Hungarian
Target audience: learner
Age range: 7 - 13
Download the game here.
Ireland
MySelfie and the Wider World
This Primary Anti-Cyber Bullying Teachers' Handbook is a Social Personal and Health Education (SPHE) resource developed to engage 10-12-year-old primary school students on the topic of cyber bullying. A series of short animations are the centrepiece of the resource. These will help students develop the skills and understanding to be responsible, socially conscious and effective internet users, as they explore social networks for the first time.
Language: English
Target audience: learner
Age range: 10 - 12
Access the resource here.
Latvia
Textbook for children "Vaifijs School"
The textbook aims to teach children, aged 5 to 7, the safe use of the internet, online risks and safety rules. Children get to know internet facilities together with a girl Lelde and a boy Vaifijs (WiFi in Latvian used to name the boy). They read a story which is told in the form of a comic.
Language: Latvian
Target audience: counsellor, learner, other, parent, teacher
Age range: 5 - 7
Download the resource here.
Luxembourg
#BeeFirstAid
#BeeFirstAid aims to engage members of the public on the topic of security with respect to network devices. It does this through involving them in a familiar procedure, borrowed from the medical world, of a first aid check, followed by advice, a prescription and long-term care. This check-up is carried out at public events and/or spaces to reach people who may not be aware of the need for technical and behavioural security when using devices such as smart phones, tablets, laptops, and so on.
Language: English, French, German
Target audience: learner, parent
Age range: > 8
Download the resource in English here.
Download the resource in French here.
Download the resource in German here.
Malta
Digizen
A lesson on the topic of Digitial Citizenship was developed for 10-year-old students. The main resource was a comic book 'Digizen'. The story depicted the common online activities of young children when playing online multiplayer games, focusing on rights and responsibilities as digital citizens.
Language: English
Target audience: learner
Age range: 8 - 11
Access the lesson plan here.
Poland
"Give hater a hug" - lesson plan
"Przytul hejtera" ("Give hater a hug") is a lesson plan intended for use in the classroom for students of high school (aged 15-18 years). It focuses on raising awareness about online hate speech appearing on the internet and especially on social networking sites. It includes a ready-made PowerPoint presentation and uses a music video clip. "Give hater a hug" first launched during a social campaign under the same slogan in April 2015.
Language: Polish
Target audience: teacher
Age range: 15 - 18
Download the lesson plan here.
Portugal
Comic Strips SeguraNet
The Portuguese Safer Internet Centre has produced 50 comic strips on the different themes promoting safer and more responsible use of online technology and mobile phones.
Language: Portuguese, English
Target audience: learner, parent, teacher
Age range: > 7
Access the comic strips in Portuguese here.
Access the comic strips in English here.
Revenge porn: What are you sharing?
This resource is a stop-motion video developed by the students of a Portuguese Professional School - Escola Profissional de Imagem. The video establishes the connection between what would be a 'random sexting even' to something much more serious, such as revenge porn. The students involved classified this task as a learning experience and consider that they are much more aware of the risks of sharing this kind of content. This video is a part of a collection of several resources aimed to promote the Portuguese Helpline.
Language: Portuguese
Target audience: author, learner, teacher
Age range: > 13
Access the video here.
Safe Mobile Devices
This resource consists on a brochure providing advice on how to keep mobile devices safe.
Language: Portuguese, English
Target audience: learner, parent, teacher
Age range: > 7
Download the brochure in Portuguese here.
Download the brochure in English here.
Russia
Internet services to help missing children
The brochure for parents/guardians, teachers/educators and specialists working with children, including civil volunteers involved in child rescue. The brochure explains how typical applications and tools from the internet can be helpful in cases where a child goes missing - especially for the child him/herself via a smartphone/tablet to get additional information, position him/herself, or get in touch with others. It is expected that information from the brochure will be provided to children by adults; a special brochure with similar content also exists directly for children and young people.
Language: Russian
Target audience: counsellor, parent, teacher
Age range: > 18
Download the brochure here.
Mobile safety for youth
This is a brochure for middle-school grade children with basic safety rules on using mobile phones and the mobile Internet. The brochure covers such issues as mobile fraud, communication threats, cyberethics and cyberbullying. Printed in Russian and English, this brochure is intended for personal or family use, and can be used for General Safety school lessons.
Language: English
Target audience: other, parent
Age range: 8 - 12
Download the brochure here.
Slovakia
Kybersikanovanie.sk
Project 'Kybersikanovanie.sk' (cyberbullying in Slovak) was launched on Safer Internet Day (SID) 2015 (10 February 2015). The kit includes the DVD with cyberbullying movies and a professional book.
Language: Slovak
Target audience: learner, other, parent, teacher
Age range: 7 - 19
Download the kit here.
Slovenia
Help for parents in the vortex of new tehnologies
This new leaflet is part of the Slovenian Awareness Centre's Back2School campaign 2015. It will be sent to all Slovenian schools at the begining of the school year for teachers to distribute them to parents of children of 9 to 12 years old at the first parent evening.
Language: Slovenian
Target audience: parent
Age range: 9 - 12
Download the leaflet here.
Sweden
Display materials in libraries
The MIL-librarian pack includes a leaflet, screen saver and desktop background with media and information literacy messages. The pack is designed to be distributed in schools and public libraries, to highlight the librarian's competencies and to remind visitors about the importance of media and information literacy. The material makes media and information literacy understandable and concrete.
Download here (the files are zip-files due to the size. An instruction how to install the files is included in the zip-file.)
Language: Swedish
Target audience: other
Age range: > 1
Access the resource here.
Pedagogical resource: Duckface/Stoneface - for upper elementary
‘Duckface/Stoneface' is a tool for upper elementary teachers containing examples on how to work with pictures, social media and gender differences in the classroom. This teacher's tool contains three themes: gender roles and media usage, gender differences in selfies, and the different arenas where boys and girls are social online.
Language: Swedish
Target audience: teacher
Age range: 13 – 16
Access the resource here.
United Kingdom
Social media checklists - Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter
The UK Safer Internet Centre has produced four handy checklists for using popular social media networks safely - Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter. The checklists cover everything you need to know in order to manage your information and stay safe online while using these services. The handy guides include advice on how to manage your privacy and control what and who you share information with, how to block and report, as well as how to delete or deactivate an account. The checklists were produced by our helpline in partnership with safety teams of the three service providers - Facebook, Snapchat & Twitter. In the UK the checklists can also be ordered as hard copies from the Centre's coordinators via the SWGfL online store - www.swgflstore.com.
Language: English
Target audience: learner, other, parent, teacher
Age range: > 13
Download the resources here.