SID - Safer Internet Day activities at the Fridagymnasiet college in Vänersborg, Sweden

SID - Safer Internet Day at the Fridagymnasiet college in Vänersborg, Sweden

Since the Fridagymnasiet college has an outspoken ICT profile and both students and teachers save and share most of their work on-line, addressing safety issues is an ongoing process that goes on all year round and not only on SID. However, the special day made it even more important to focus on how to use the Internet in a safe way. One example of the activities:

Year one students at the college have been working on a long term project with workshops on the theme: Hidden dangers of the Internet. 

There is extensive pedagogical material for teachers as well as videos as the basis for discussions and workshops on www.mucf.se - The Swedish Agency for Youth and Civil Society - a government agency that works to ensure that young people have access to influence and welfare. The agency also supports the government in issues relating to civil society policy. The students have used several occasions of their class hour (which they have three times per week) to work on the material ”Ses offline?” - ”See you offline?”. The final workshops took place on SID - Safer Internet Day, 10 February 2015. 

• The ”See you offline?” course material focus on different situations such as what happens: 
• when someone takes a picture of you and then shares it online, 
• when you meet and talk to someone online, maybe flirt and then don’t know how to say no to a meeting in real life
• if you are stuck playing an online game, need money to continue playing and someone offers you money in return for a picture of yourself.
• Some of the videos to be used as the basis for discussions are:
• See you offline? Lesson 1 film 1 - English subtitles
• See you offline? Lesson 1 film 2 - English subtitles
• See you offline? Lesson 2 - English subtitles
• See you offline? Lesson 3 film 1 - English subtitles
• See you offline? Lesson 3 film 2 - English subtitles