(ANSA) – ROME, FEBRUARY 04 – Italian children report low levels of information skills and online navigation (35%).
Levels of creative and productive skills are also rather scarce (38%), while those relating to technical-operational skills (56%) and communication and relational skills (65%) improve. These are some data that emerged from the report of the first wave of the European ySKILLS 2021 survey, a few days from the Safer Internet Day of 8 February. The project, which involves six countries in Europe, was funded under the European Union’s Horizon2020 research and innovation program.
“It has adopted a new tool for measuring digital skills, classified into four areas: technical-operational, information and navigation, communicative and relational, creative skills – explained Giovanna Mascheroni, professor of Sociology of digital media at the Catholic University and coordinator of the Italian team ySKILLS.
According to the research, compared to daily access to the internet, the devices most used by Italian children are 96% smartphones, 52% PCs and 24% tablets. The time spent online on a school day is 3.4 hours. Of all the study participants, 90% have a social profile (Instagram, Facebook, Tik Tok), 82% have a private profile and 7 out of 10 accept friend requests from unknown people or who have not met at least once. person. This is more true for boys than for girls. Finally, the most common risk is exposure to hate content and hate speech (70%), followed by exposure to harmful and harmful content (self-harming behavior, drug use, alcohol, dangerous slimming products or improper diet) and sexual images (both 54%). (HANDLE).
Source: Ansa
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