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Beyond Clicking: Teaching Children to Think Before They Trust Online
Children are growing up in a world where information is limitless, artificial intelligence is becoming part of everyday life, and digital platforms increasingly shape how they learn, communicate, and make decisions. Will they develop the skills needed to question it, understand it and use it responsibly?
Digital Citizenship Starts Earlier Than We Think
Digital citizenship is often treated as a topic for teenagers. We usually connect it with social media, online identity, misinformation, cyberbullying, privacy settings and digital footprints. However, children begin developing digital habits much earlier than adolescence.
Growing Up Online: Why Digital Safety Starts Early
For many children today, being online is part of everyday life. They use the internet to learn, play, chat with friends, watch videos and explore their interests. It opens up a lot of opportunities, but it also brings situations that…
Children Take the Controller: How Game Design can teach Online Safety
What if the best way to teach children about online dangers wasn’t a lecture or a rulebook, but a video game they built themselves?That’s exactly the idea behind PowerUP, a European project bringing together schools from Portugal, Greece, Poland, and Romania, with digital education experts from Belgium and Italy.