Abstract:

In today's digital world, children encounter the internet and digital technologies at every turn and they accompany them in their daily lives from a very young age. Children are more informed about internet and modern technologies than their parents or teachers and often nobody can control them. The pandemic of the coronavirus has shown us that we cannot do without digital technology at this time. The need of developing digital literacy and digital competences has become a fundamental concept in the debate about what knowledge, skills and attitudes people should have in today's digital society. In the most complex and most recent definitions, digital competence consists not only of digital skills, but also social and emotional aspects, as digital technologies mediate many of our social interactions.

Nowadays, the internet is a relatively new environment with specific rules that are mostly different from those in the offline world. The internet can be a great place for children to interact with friends, play games, create their own projects and learn. In addition to the undoubted advantages, the online world also comes with a series of risks and hidden threats. The risks can be perceived at two levels - the technological and the human level. Technological risks include activities that attack the hardware of a digital device in order to obtain and misuse the user's personal data. At the human level, it is not an attack on technical equipment, but on the virtual identity of the individual in cyberspace. When faced with this danger, an individual may suffer psychological and physical harm. Therefore it is necessary that the issue of safe behavior in the online environment should become part of children's education from the very beginning of their schooling.

The aim of this paper is to present teaching materials, examples of lessons and ideas that help to develop digital competence Children´s Safety at primary school, which is very important and is significantly linked to other competences in other areas such as: Digital Identity Management, Netiquette, Communication and Collaboration and Digital Content Creation. These teaching materials aim to teach students about online behavior and how to critically use modern technologies to search, evaluate and share information. The paper also includes methodological support for teachers.

Keywords:

Digital competences, digital safety, methodology, education, primary school.