News Overview 2017

Our updated checklist can give parents some rough guidance in making a decision.

As part of the program accompanying the National Digital Summit, which will take place on June 12 and 13, 2017 in Ludwigshafen and the Rhine-Neckar region, Dr. Stefanie Hubig, Minister of Education of Rhineland-Palatinate, visited the State Agency for Media and Communication (LMK) in Ludwigshafen on June 12. In the digital young talent workshop, children and young people presented innovative digital education projects. Minister Hubig provided information about current developments in the state's strategy for promoting media literacy and presented the expansion of the successful state program "Medienkompetenz macht Schule" (Media Literacy in Schools) to the elementary school level.

Sexting, the sending of one's own nude pictures, is nothing unusual for many young people. According to JIM 2015, a quarter of young people have heard someone send them erotic or provocative photos or films of themselves by cell phone or over the Internet. To inform teenagers about sexting and the possible risks that can arise from it, www.handysektor.de publishes a topic special including an explanatory video.

The upcoming klicksafe webinar will take place on Thursday, 22.06.2017, in the time between 15.00 and 16.00.

The Tagesschau is currently running a social media campaign under the motto "Say it to my face" against hate comments and for a better culture of discussion on the web.

Lower Saxony's Minister of Education Heiligenstadt presents new teaching materials on fake news

New study on educational partnerships and online tool published

Whether photos, videos or documents. Users store a lot of private data on their own computers. But what happens if you suddenly lose this data? How much would you be willing to pay to get your personal data back? Ransomware, such as the currently circulating "WannaCry", infects computers in order to demand money for the release of the data.

The Teachtoday initiative is putting the topic of opinion formation at the center of its annual "Media, but safe." competition in 2017. Together with YouTuber Max Oberüber, creative ideas are being sought until June 4, 2017.

Topic "Hate Speech - Hatred on the Net

Media-Family-Responsibility" campaign enters next phase

State Media Authority and Rhineland-Palatinate Consumer Center publish position paper. Also recently published is the citizen- and consumer-oriented brochure "Dein Algorithmus - meine Meinung: Algorithmen und ihre Bedeutung für Meinungsbildung und Demokratie" ("Your Algorithm - My Opinion: Algorithms and their Significance for Opinion Formation and Democracy").

Hate on the Internet - already a topic for elementary school students? This question is on the minds of many parents and also the experts at Internet-ABC e.V.: Opinions differ widely. The Internet ABC has compiled background information on the topic.

The portal mobilsicher.de tested the app, which is popular with young people, and found significant shortcomings with regard to data protection requirements, among other things.