Discovering the Digital World Together, Safely and Critically

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30 April 2012
Maija Katkovska
Pan European
en, es, bg, da, el, et, cs, de, fi, lt, lv, sl, it, sv, sk, pl, nl, pt-pt, ro, hu, fr
Internet Safety, Competence, eSkills, literacy, media, identity, critical thinking, critical pedagogy, risk groups
Schools, Learning & Society
Discovering the Digital World Together, Safely and Critically

Within the framework of the Safer Internet Program, Latvia organized a Safer Internet Day to bring parents, teachers and young people together to discover the digital world safely. According to current findings, safely means critically, because digital literacy skills are strongly linked to the ability to perform a critical evaluation of online content, which is automatically related to personal safety online.

Research conducted by EU Kids Online in 2010 showed that only 54% of children and young people say they are able and do compare information from different online sources before accepting it as true and trustful. To check this assumption, the Latvian Safer Internet Centre, together with Latvian social networking site Draugiem.lv, set up an experiment to test young people's caution when providing personal information. The findings point to a need for greater measures that address and enhance young people's critical digital literacy.

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