Damjan Ferlič, OŠ Franja Malgaja Šentjur

We will present the activities carried out in schools to help make technology use as comfortable and safe as possible, as well as the approaches, tools and technological solutions used to achieve this objective. Since technology unfortunately cannot protect users from all the dangers presented by the digital world, more attention should be devoted to the education of students, teachers and parents. Not wanting to leave anything to chance, we also strive to identify all the potential traps and issues associated with the increasing use of digital technology.

Damjan Ferlič graduated from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Computing and Information Science. He has been working in primary schools as a computer specialist and organiser of information activities ever since, and is in charge of ensuring that the entire information communication infrastructure operates perfectly. He is also responsible for numerous ICT services, as well as educating and providing assistance to end users. He is particularly interested in servers, networks and IPv6. He has also been actively cooperating with ARNES in various fields.

Barbara Buchegger, Pedagogical Manager, Saferinternet.at

There are currently no plans in the Austrian educational system to include any special curriculum or subjects on topics such as online-security, responsible online behaviour or copyright, and so there is no guarantee that the students will encounter such topics during their time at school. Saferinternet.at introduced several measures in order to help change things, e.g. free educational material for teachers, training sessions in schools (especially “Saferinternet.at – Vaccination”), as well as teacher and head-teacher training sessions. Through the implementation of such measures, a total of 14,000 students and teachers were reached in 2013 and 2014 alone.

This lecture will demonstrate the Austrian approach and several easy-to-go classroom activities for different age groups.
 
Barbara Buchegger is the pedagogical manager at Saferinternet.at. She develops course curricula, teaching materials and works as a trainer for schools as part of the Austrian training team. She is an expert in collaborative e-learning and large group facilitation.