1. International comparison of the state of Internet safety for children and youth Countries included: Slovenia Spain Turkey Schools included Schools included: OSNOVNA OLA RODICA, Domale CEIP SON CANALS, Palma, 75.YIL LKRETM OKULU, Burdur

2. 1International comparison of the state of Internet safety for children and youth Comenius project THINKB4UCLICK Introduction The international comparison is a product of the partnership among Slovenia, Spain and Turkey; moreover three primary schools in a Comenius project: OSNOVNA OLA RODICA, of Domale, CEIP SON CANALS of Palma and 75.YIL LKRETM OKULU of Burdur. The aim of the partnership was to compare the state of internet safety and drawbacks in all schools of the project. To achieve our goals, we created questionnaires. The purpose of the online questionnaire at the beginning of the project was to determine the initial and the real situation in all schools of the partner countries. The questionnaire included questions and giving opinions for students and parents about the general use of computers and Internet, the safe use of the Internet and the dangers of Internet, including cyberbullying. The results of all partners are published in this report. The questionnaires are available online: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?usp=drive_web&formkey=dHNwejNFaEMtX1h CeUlqZm4tRWVrRHc6MA#gid=0 (questionnaire for students) https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?usp=drive_web&formkey=dHhseXVQRjNCa2tR blp2UGJ6dEsyQ3c6MA#gid=0 (questionnaire for parents). The results in Slovenia In Slovenia, the sample was consisted of students from 6th to9th grades and their parents, because this age group use more often computers and the Internet for various purposes, so the sample was more representative. Student results 95% of Slovenian students of the Primary school Rodica have internet connection at home and most of them computers in their rooms) and 66 % use it every day, while 5 %

3. 2International comparison of the state of Internet safety for children and youth Comenius project THINKB4UCLICK do not have internet connection at home. 32 % use the Internet less than on hour a day and 24 % one to two hours per day. Most of students (73%) use the Internet for social network sites and every day. Most of students can help others to learn how to use the computer, internet or how to stay safe on the internet. However, most of them think they couldnt recognize dangers on the Internet, but they take precautions (for example: no personal information, be careful about fake profiles,etc.) 59 % think you can get addicted to the Internet and most of them know someone who uses it too much. Generally, they agree that there are better ways to spend their free time besides the internet: meeting friends, playing sports, etc. 19% 65% 74% 54% 20% 25% 9% 4% Studies /Reading Social Networking (Facebook, Twitter,) Entertainment (music, movies, Youtube) Computer games Looking for some information Emails Shopping 19% 18% 15% 18% What to learn about the dangers of the Internet? safe use of the Internet cyberbullying codes of behaviour on the Internet all of them

4. 3International comparison of the state of Internet safety for children and youth Comenius project THINKB4UCLICK 68 % of students have talked with someone (parents) about the safe use of internet, 59 % think they know a lot about it. Most of them stay safe with the help of other students and adults who teach them how to use the Internet and mobile phones in a safe way (54% ) or by visiting Internet pages promoting the safe use of Internet (45%). Most of them think they have enough information about cyberbullying, but they do think theres a lot of cyberbullying on the Internet, but almost half of them would like to learn more about it. 24 % of students know someone who has been bullied on the Internet. 12 % have been bullied, usually by text messages. They feel stressed, worried and afraid. For most of them, cyberbullying has lasted from one to two weeks or even a few years. They have also suggested different solutions to the problem of cyberbullying, like help the victim of cyberbullying, block the person who is bullying or tell your parents. Parent results Most of their children (89%) use the internet less than one hour per day, often instead of watching TV (30%), but almost never instead of exercising or sleeping. 77 % of their children use social networking sites. Almost every parent have talked about e-safety with their child.

5. 4International comparison of the state of Internet safety for children and youth Comenius project THINKB4UCLICK More than half of parents have enough knowledge about computers, the Internet; however, most of them (72%) would like that the school provides education to parents, especially on topics: Cyberbullying How to set up privacy settings on social networking sites Impacts of media on my childs behaviour How to help my child think critically about media Effects of media on my childs health and development 32 % of their children have already talked to a person on a social network sites who they dont know. Nonetheless, the majority of parents know the amount of personal information that their child display on their social networking profile page and they have checked their childs digital footprint on a computer. 69 % of parents think that the teachers need better training to deal with bullying and also cyberbullying. Parents are worried about any kind of violence, however, the most growing apprehension is about internet violence. Nonetheless, their biggest concern is still physical violence. Also, the parents propose some solutions to the problem of cyberbullying on the Internet. They propose to help the victims with open discussion about the problems, preventive actions or report the bully to the rational legal authorities. The punishments suggested by the parents are very similar to their propositions about helping a victim of cyberbullying, however, they also encourage volunteer work to ensure that the cyberbully will learn to help others. 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% Chat rooms Music Instant Messenger Gaming File sharing Social Networking Web Surfing Childs Favourite Activities on the Internet

6. 5International comparison of the state of Internet safety for children and youth Comenius project THINKB4UCLICK The results in Spain In Spain, the 5th graders and 6th graders (10-12 years old) and their parents participated in this task, because they are the eldest students in our school and use more often computers and social nets. Teachers in our school considered the rest of students were too young to answer this questionnaire. It was a nice experience for everybody because it became our first questionnaire online ever. Anyway we have to take into account almost half of the Mallorcas families of our school do not have internet connection at home. For this reason this kind of activities cannot be compulsory at school. Student results: On the whole we received 58 questionnaires, but just 56 were valid. Most of them were 11 years old, and we had more or less the same % of girls (27) and boys (29). CONCLUSIONS: Almost 80% has internet access at home and they usually use it in common places, such as the dining room or the living room. Those who havent it usually use it through cell phones or cybercafs. A great part of our students (almost the 50%) uses internet every day and an important number of them (27%), more than once a week. 60% uses it about 2 hours a day. The order of priorities when using internet is: 38% 19% 15% 28% physical violence psychological violence cyberbullying internet addiction

7. 6International comparison of the state of Internet safety for children and youth Comenius project THINKB4UCLICK 57% of our students uses social networks more than once a week. We think it is a very high number if we take into account they are illegal at this age. But the positive part is that almost everybody knows all contacts there. The ones they dont know personally are usually famous people like footballers. All of them have heard about the dangers on the internet, because since the project started, we have been talking about it. For this reason, we invited some police officers who came to our school to talk about it. 97% of students think this talk was really useful. According to the results, they trust their parents. In case of a problem on the web, they would talk to them first. And also to a teacher or to a police officer. They think the most important advantages of internet are: being in touch with others (chats, emails, Skype, networks,). A lot of our students are foreigners so they use it to be in touch with their relatives; having fun (computer games, games, music, YouTube, films,); having a big information source where to find whatever they want. From their point of view, the biggest disadvantages are: virus; problems with the internet access; hackers; unknown people being in contact in social networks, 96% thinks there are lots of interesting things to do apart from surfing the internet: meeting friends; playing with them; doing sports; going on excursions; 15% of our students has been threatened specially through SMS but it was something which lasted a week. Most of them thinks cyberbullying is a big problem these days. But at the same time they think they have enough information to cope with this problem although they would like to go deeper in it. For most of them, cyberbullying is related to students threatened other students. They are worried about it. 20% knows someone who has been threatened. 80% doesnt. * Just 16% thinks they could be an internet addict in the future. In fact, 83% of our students knows somebody who uses internet too much. 24% 22% 18% 18% 13% 5% Entertainment Studies Information Games Social Nets Emails

8. 7International comparison of the state of Internet safety for children and youth Comenius project THINKB4UCLICK Parent results: We just received 30 questionnaires online, one was not valid. In our school, a lot of parents are not used to new technologies. To be honest, we have to say that it was the 1st time they did a questionnaire online. It has been a nice experience for them, but not many could do it. Most of them were done by mothers. Participants: 29 (23 mothers and 6 fathers). 13 were 5th graders parents and 16, 6th graders parents. CONCLUSIONS: Along the questionnaire, they have shown their worries about the dangers on the internet. In fact, they have shown us their satisfaction about the school participating in this project. They are very happy about it. According to them, they are really worried about dangerous people on the web and about how easy it is to have an access to those pages for adults which are not appropriate to them, especially the ones about sex. Most of them, 64%, confesses they are not ready to avoid these dangers. They dont have a specific knowledge and would like the school to help them in this sense, especially at the time of developing a critical use of it and installing safe systems at home. 96% thinks it is a great idea the school educates in it. They said their children are connected to internet but not too much. All of them coincided in less than 4 hours last weekend. Just 7% knows about the fact that their children have talked to unknown people sometimes. I suppose it is because the children explained it to them. 68% knows their children use social networks and 12% knows they have had some problems with them. 82% of parents is conscious about the great amount of information their children leave in these places but they still allow them to use them. 76% says they have talked about the dangers of internet with their children and 67% usually checks what the children have been doing on the internet, revising the historical movements. Just 8% has found inappropriate information sometimes. According to their answers, a lot of problems could be avoided by: talking about them and providing with more information; spending time talking to their children and supporting them; giving them more education about these technological tools; If there are other students in the school threatening others, most parents think: teachers should talk to their parents very seriously and make them understand how harmful their actions are for the victims. Some of them think they should be sacked.

9. 8International comparison of the state of Internet safety for children and youth Comenius project THINKB4UCLICK The results in Turkey: 234 students from 6th to 8th grades of the primary school in Turkey filled out the online questionnaires. Most of them were boys (62%). Student results The majority of students do not have internet connection at home (60%); however the majority of students use the Internet once a week, one third of all students use it every day. Most of students (63%) use Internet for homework. Other students use it for social networking (especially Facebook), gaming and music. Nonetheless, they rather use mobile phones (51%) for communicating than the Internet/Facebook. The majority of students did not talk about the safe use of internet. However, if they would have problems on the Internet, especially cyberbullying, they would talk with their parents. Students have different choices about the use of the Internet: 42 % of students know that there is a lot of cyberbullying on the Internet; however, the majority (58%) thinks cyberbullying is not the most important problem on the Internet. The majority of the students think that the most harmful violence is still physical violence, while at least 18 % think that cyberbullying can be a harmful problem. The majority of students have not been cyberbullied (95%), only 5% were. Parent results 88 % of the parents would like the school to provide education for parents about cyberbullying and internet safety. According to parents, Internet addiction is the most alarming danger among all violence.

10. 9International comparison of the state of Internet safety for children and youth Comenius project THINKB4UCLICK The majority of parents (56%) had a conversation about e-safety with their children. In addition, 56 % of parents have checked their childs internet history and %15 have found harmful material in the web history. All the parents think that teachers should be better trained to deal with cyberbullying. Parents have also suggested some propositions of punishment for cyberbullying: boot camps, counselling or exclusion from schools. Questionnaire and feedback in the final phase of the comparison Students completed the questionnaire and gave feedback on their progress in achieving the objectives of the project. Pupils were asked about the proposed activities that would help them to raise awareness about problems and cyberbullying on the Internet and provide them skills to use the internet in a safe way, to behave online in a proper way and to use adequate steps to protect themselves against the dangers of the Internet and other types of computer misuse. The results in Slovenia 78% of Slovenian students liked the proposed activities about internet safety and cyberbullying. Also, 98% of students think that rules on the Internet are compulsory. 41 % of students have used the rules that were presented and taught in the school also at home. Learning about internet safety help the students to follow rules at home, as 57 % of students are more careful using the Internet at home. However, others did not use the Punishments for cyberbullying boot camp counselling exclusion from schools

11. 10International comparison of the state of Internet safety for children and youth Comenius project THINKB4UCLICK rules from the proposed activities at schools, because 56% of them already knew and used the rules of internet safety at home. Students ideas and propositions were used to create rules of schools netiquette which were presented in every classes and pinned as a poster in every classroom in the school. In generation gap workshops, older students help the younger students to use the Internet in a safe away and they teach them about the dangers on the Internet and how to be careful when using a computer. The results in Spain 100% of our students liked a lot the proposed activities in this project. They gave us several reasons. They think: They were many and varied. They were interesting and some, quite fun. They were real. They connected to the real world. They were useful to become conscious of how important this topic is these days. They learnt new concepts and new measures to follow in the future to stay safe on the net. They learnt new ways to work in the future. They gave them a new opportunity to be in touch with other countries and other people. 90% of students follows the new rules they have learnt in this project. All of them are now more conscious of the dangers on the net but some confess it is still difficult for them not to upload personal photos on social nets. They still go on doing it but they explain they are more careful with the content in them. 5% confesses they still do illegal downloads. When asking them about the most important knowledge they had acquired, the answers were: The legal age to use social nets and some of the most important dangers when using them. Some important rules to stay safe. How dangerous wifis with no passwords can be and how easy for a hacker is to get access to your personals accounts. The need to use secure web pages: check they have the https code. Students new knowledge was used to create a guide with 16 rules to help everybody stay safe on the net. It was uploaded to our Comenius blog and explained to the school community in some meetings by the students. The results in Turkey

12. 11International comparison of the state of Internet safety for children and youth Comenius project THINKB4UCLICK All the students liked the activities proposed during classes and the project. Also, the majority of the students think that the rules are important on the Internet and they follow them. They learned a lot about internet safety and cyberbullying and especially steps how to protect yourself on the Internet. Even though, cyberbullying is not an alarming problem in the school, they learned how to behave on the Internet and to be aware of the problems on the Internet. Learning about internet safety help them also to be safe on mobile phones. They also discussed a lot about rules and appropriate behaviour on the Internet and create rules of schools internet safety. COMPARISON OF THE STATE IN THREE COUNTRIES Most of the students in all three countries use regularly the Internet; especially in Slovenia where the percentage of daily uses of the Internet is among students the highest. Most of the students in all three countries use the Internet for entertainment; however, they also use it for school work, especially in Turkey. The results of the questionnaires showed that the students were worried about internet safety and the dangers of the internet and wanted to learn about the topics as well as their parents. The majority of students in Slovenia and Spain already had some pieces of information about internet safety, less in Turkey. The degree of cyberbullying in three countries presents a quarter of all the results, but the students and parents wanted to learn more about this threat of the Internet. Even though, students in Turkey did not have so many encounters with cyberbullying than in Slovenia and Spain. Parents and students suggested in the initial phase of the project some solutions to the problem of cyberbullying on the Internet. The activities in the project improved the quality of internet safety at all schools in this project. In all three countries, the majority of students stated that they learned a lot about safety internet and how to cope with the dangers on the Internet with the proposed activities in our project. They stated that they liked the activities and wanted to have similar activities in the future. They have improved their knowledge about the Internet, internet safety and drawbacks and they started to follow the rules that they have learned in the project, at school and also at home. They also created rules how to behave on the Internet and computers in general and especially in their schools. Also, parents and teachers gained new knowledge about internet safety and steps how to protect children on the Internet.

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