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Safe and Secure: Navigate Online Spaces Responsibly
Safe and Secure: Navigate Online Spaces Responsibly
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Safe and Secure: Navigate Online Spaces Responsibly
This activity helps youth workers support both younger and older youth in building a strong foundation of online safety. It includes practical tools for preventing risks like oversharing, scams, and digital manipulation, while also facilitating deeper reflection on digital identity, consent, boundaries and peer support.
By tailoring activities to age and experience, youth workers can encourage all young people to think critically and act responsibly in online spaces.
By completing this activity, you will
- Explore how different age groups understand and navigate digital safety.
- Facilitate peer-led and age-appropriate activities that address both technical risks and emotional wellbeing online.
- Support youth in creating shared norms, tips, and resources for online safety.
Get inspired
Watch: “Oversharing and Your Digital Footprint” (Common Sense Education)
Read: “Safety Tips for Teens” by ConnectSafely
Explore: Google’s “Be Internet Awesome” and Microsoft’s Digital Civility Index
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/digital-skills/digital-civilityhttps://beinternetawesome.withgoogle.com/https://www.connectsafely.org/wp-content/uploads/safety-tips-for-teens.pdf
Take action: activities for different roles
Youth workers:
- For younger youth: Use safety scenarios (e.g., being tagged in a photo, receiving a message from a stranger) and co-create a tip sheet.
- For older youth: Use real-life dilemmas (e.g., hacked accounts, public shaming, sexting) and facilitate critical discussion or role play.
- Invite youth of all ages to define their own digital boundaries in writing or visuals.
Youth organizations:
- Co-create group agreements or online community standards with youth input.
- Organize cross-age peer learning events where older youth support younger peers.
- Partner with digital experts or local NGOs to host Q&As or privacy clinics.
Young people:
- Write or record a reflection about a time you felt safe — or unsafe — online.
- Design a digital boundary statement or "What I Wish I Knew at 13" message.
- Create a zine, short video, or carousel post that shares advice for safer online engagement.
Suggested follow-up activities
- Run a boundary-setting and privacy settings workshop.
- Launch a “Digital Respect” campaign led by youth.
- Invite youth to contribute to a collective online safety guide for your group.
Claim open badge recognition
Digital Safety Leader
Awarded for exploring and promoting online safety through peer reflection, action, and education across different youth age groups.
Skills and experiences gained
- Peer mentoring and age-appropriate guidance
- Privacy, consent, and identity awareness
- Online risk navigation
- Empathy and reflective thinking
- Creating digital safety resources
Who created this resource?
This activity was developed by CITI (Curaçao Innovation and Technology Institute), a partner in the Digital Systemic project, as part of the Erasmus+ project Systemic Development of Digital Youth Work, in collaboration with the Cities of Learning Network.
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Digital Safety Advocate Get this badge
This badge is awarded to anyone (youth, youth worker or organization) who actively promotes online safety across different age groups through education, resource creation and peer support. This badge recognizes your role in building safer digital communities, facilitating critical discussions about online risks and empowering others with practical digital safety skills.
Tarefas
Task no.1
Issued by organiser or scanning QR code
Task 1
Evidence verified by activity organiser
Create or co-create a digital safety resource (tip sheet, post, zine, or video) tailored to a specific youth age group.
Task 2
Evidence verified by activity organiser
Facilitate or participate in a cross-age safety discussion. Reflect on what you learned and how it could change your approach to digital safety.
Habilidades
#Awareness-raising on young people’s digital rights and their risks
ESCO
#data privacy
#Good Level. Creates a safe context for digital use and suggested young people to protect themselves from potential cybersecurity threats.
#Fair Level. Knows how to support young people to collectively, as a group, gather and reflect on online information (non-formal learning is social knowledge production).
#Excellent Level. Supports young people to create their communities, based on pre-set learning objectives, while reflecting on the results.
#Good Level. Learns to integrate practice-based learning (non-formal learning) and youth participatory approaches in digital youth work practiceer personality.
#Fair Level. Discusses with young people about the type of digital content they want to produce
#Fair Level. Advises young people on their basic functional skills, such as critically navigating through a variety of websites and platforms.
Organizadores
Digital Youth Work Resource Hub
A Badgecraft roda uma infra-estrutura web para Cidades e Regiões de Aprendizagem. O consórcio Europeu desenvolve esta plataforma com o co-financiamento do programa da União Europeia Erasmus+
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