Izvleček Digital media has become part of our everyday life in recent years, and this applies especially to school-age students. The COVID-19 pandemic and the transition to distance learning have raised the level of student exposure to the Internet, including its dangers. Aiming to examine the impact of preventive programs for safe Internet practices on the media literacy of children in primary school, we conducted an empirical study among 267 students. Media literacy was analysed in terms of the ways of using digital media as well as in terms of safe Internet practices, and comparisons were made by student gender and age.
Digitalni mediji in varnost osnovnošolskih učencev na internetu med pandemijo covid-19Digitalni mediji imajo v zadnjem obdobju pomembno vlogo v našem vsakdanjem življenju, to še posebej velja za šoloobvezne otroke. S pandemijo COVID-19 in s prehodom na učenje na daljavo se je izpostavljenost učencev svetovnemu spletu in z njim povezanim pastem še povečala. Članek obravnava vpliv preventivnih programov varne rabe interneta na medijsko pismenost osnovnošolskih otrok. V empirični raziskavi, v kateri je sodelovalo 267 otrok, smo analizirali medijsko pismenost tako z vidika rabe digitalnih medijev kot z vidika varne rabe interneta. Ugotavljali smo tudi razlike med udeleženci glede na spol in starost.