Högskolan i Skövde

The world has become more digitized, and children use digital devices daily as games or watching tools. As technology grows stronger, the use of cyberspace and the threat coming within cyberspace grow larger by the day. Today's technology makes children active users in the cyber community as many children do in fact, use digital devices to talk to strangers, play online games and so on. There has also been increased digitization within preschool. Therefore, this thesis aims to review the existing guidelines regarding digital devices in the education system from the Swedish National Agency of Education (SNAE). Furthermore, investigate how preschool teachers translate the existing guidelines into practice for children's security online and how teachers work with cyber security awareness. The authors’, therefore conducted an interview study to gather data from teachers and principals in preschools regarding the use of digital devices. The authors’ aim to understand how teachers and principals work together with the existing guidelines to further enhance cyber security awareness among children. Multiple teachers work with digital tools in preschools. However, teachers use digital tools as a supplement to teaching children. The discussion regarding the risks and how to be safe online is not discussed as much in preschool because of the children's age. Multiple participants agreed that a separate segment for cyber security awareness would be significant.