The newly released issue of the journal Children in an Information Society is dedicated to the National Internet Security School Lesson. The lesson has been conducted nationwide since 2014. In 2016, it included over 36,000 schools and 350 libraries in all the federal districts, or 12.5 million school children.
The issue features interviews with the founders of the movement for children’s online safety and with the people behind the lesson, tips for parents, an article recounting the experience of holding the lesson in libraries, and an overview of the games and competitions available to enhance students’ knowledge of the internet and technology, improve their digital literacy and expand online content for children. The Coordination Center of TLD .RU/.РФ was actively involved in compiling the issue.
Last year, the Coordination Center’s Director Andrey Vorobyev gave lectures to students on the structure and functioning of the internet, rules of online behavior and information security. The most recent issue includes an interview with Andrey Vorobyev in which he shares his views on the issue of online safety for children and teenagers and discusses the work the Coordination Center does in the area.
“The Coordination Center for TLD .RU/.РФ carries out lots of social and educational projects whose objectives are closely related with the goals set by the National Internet Security Lesson. This includes the social and educational project Study the Internet, Govern It!, the website’s Positive Content contest and the domain .ДЕТИ which was established with the Coordination Center’s support. We are trying to deliver our lectures about internet security in the form of a game, in order to both teach children basic internet hygiene and make the internet safe. Knowledge of proper online behavior should be instilled simultaneously with fist gaining internet access, which is what the National Internet Security School Lesson aims to do,” Andrey Vorobyev noted.
The information and analytical journal Children in an Information Society has been published since 2009. Its themes include socialization, education, and individual and spiritual growth in a time of global social and cultural changes caused by the rapid proliferation of information and communications technologies. The target audience includes those who work with school- and preschool-age children – teachers, school administrators, librarians, family and school psychologists. The journal was established as part of the Year of Internet Safety in Russia with the support of the Russian Ministry of Communications and Mass Media. The journal is published with academic support from the Lomonosov Moscow State University’s Faculty of Psychology and the Education and Science Ministry’s Federal Institute of Education Development. Information support is provided by the Russian Education and Science Ministry.
