Safety related to Internet use: Activities in Poland (10)

1) According to FB addiction stats the most FB addicted (the biggest numer of

posts a day) country is:

a) Brasil

b) Egypt

c) Norway

2) What is the name of Polish minister of digital affairs?

3) The country with the biggest percentage of social media fans is:

1) Argentina 2) Vietnam 3)Poland

Mr Armand Stanczak from the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology gave a presentation about the wise use of the Internet. The students and teachers taking part in the project had an opportunity do debate about the ways of controlling the use of the Intenet.

There were at least 10 stalls with different kinds od dishes. All of the dishes were made by the students of LO Grojec themselves. The apple pies, dumplings, cakes were all delicious. The project participants voted for the best dish.

Integration evening at the school in Grojec was an entertaining event which helped the students integrate even more. During the evening the students could present their talents. It was amazing how gifted the students were at singing, dancing, doing sports, playing different instruments, etc. The event ended with a big SIFA cake - a special treat for the guest countries.

Students were working collaboratively to create websites, using weebly.com

There were four international groups, each working on a separate topic. The topics were all connected with Safety on the Internet: sexting, grooming, cyberbullying and offensive content. The students task was to create an instructive website which would be easily accessible. 

A presentation on the causes and consequences of grooming and sexting was given by Ewa Dziemidowicz from Nobody's Children Foundation. Students could learn more about the problems which are becoming more and more serious among youngsters nowadays.

Presentation of questionnaire analysis (Safety on the Internet) by Giorgos Hlapanis.

The visit in Krakow started with a workshop at Jagiellonian University. Phd Dominika Dziwisz conducted a quiz checking the students' knowledge about the dangers connected with the use of the Internet. The students were divided into four teams, and after a lecture on Internet safety, the participants had to compete against each other with a view to winning the main prize. 

One of the presentations given during the visit in Poland was one on cyberbullying and cyberstalking. Mr Andrzej Chodkiewicz from Personal Development Centre ALTER was our guest speaker. The students participating in the lecture were made more familiar with the causes and consequences of the problems in question. What is even more important, the listeners could learn more about the possible ways of solving the problems.

Tasks for meeting in Poland (Monday 25/04/2016 to Friday 29/04/2016)

TOPIC OF THE MEETING: SAFETY ON THE INTERNET.

Issues to be dealt with:

•             Grooming / online predation / Internet predators

•             Cyberbullying, Cyberstalking

•             Offensive content - violence, self-injuries, pro-ana movement, discrimination

•             Sexting and Obscene content, e.g. pornography

The following tasks should be prepared by the students that will participate at the meeting in Poland with the assistance and supervision of the SIFA teachers: