'Maddie is Online’: a creative learning path to ethics of online safety and security for young people

Supporting digital resilience: embedding "Maddie is Online" in SCPHN school nurse education. (2025)
Journal Article
MARTZOUKOU, K., ALLAN, E. and HAYWARD, M. 2025. Supporting digital resilience: embedding "Maddie is Online" in SCPHN school nurse education. Journal of family and child health [online], 2(4), pages 196-197. Available from: https://doi.org/10.12968/jfch.2025.2.4.200

In an increasingly digital world, children and young people (CYP) navigate both opportunities and risks online. While digital platforms provide valuable spaces for learning, communication and socialisation, they also expose CYP to potential harms, in... Read More about Supporting digital resilience: embedding "Maddie is Online" in SCPHN school nurse education..

Maddie is online: co-creating with young people for safer and resilient online connectivity. [Blog post] (2024)
Digital Artefact
MARTZOUKOU, K. 2024. Maddie is online: co-creating with young people for safer and resilient online connectivity. [Blog post]. Posted on the Queen's Nursing Institute Scotland website [online], 20 June 2024. Available from: https://www.qnis.org.uk/blog/maddie-is-online-co-creating-with-young-people-for-safer-and-resilient-online-connectivity/

According to the World Health Organization (2024) "Children's lives are increasingly blended between the digital and physical worlds, intertwining virtual and real experiences in their daily routines. Ensuring online safety for children is becoming a... Read More about Maddie is online: co-creating with young people for safer and resilient online connectivity. [Blog post].

Maddie is online: the ethics of online safety and security: an innovative co-creation cartoon story-telling project with schools. (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
MARTZOUKOU, K. 2024. Maddie is online: the ethics of online safety and security: an innovative co-creation cartoon story-telling project with schools. Presented at the 2024 Librarians' information literacy annual conference (LILAC 2024), 25-27 March 2024, Leeds, UK. Hosted on Slideshare [online]. Available from: https://tinyurl.com/LILAC-2024-martzoukou

This presentation gives an overview of "Maddie is Online", an innovative educational project that uses creative storytelling to produce learning and teaching material for those involved in the education, support and safeguarding of children (aged 9-1... Read More about Maddie is online: the ethics of online safety and security: an innovative co-creation cartoon story-telling project with schools..

Maddie is online: embedding creative audio-visual resources to the teaching of information literacy in an elementary school in Greece. (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
MARTZOUKOU, K. and TRAMANTZA, E. 2023. Maddie is online: embedding creative audio-visual resources to the teaching of information literacy in an elementary school in Greece. Presented at the 2023 European conference on information literacy (ECIL 2023), 9-12 October 2023, Krakow, Poland.

There is a growing need to design creative teaching methods for early in the school curriculum to empower children with information literacy (IL) skills. This will prepare them for battling mis/disinformation, so that they can be safe, understand the... Read More about Maddie is online: embedding creative audio-visual resources to the teaching of information literacy in an elementary school in Greece..