I have a dream !!!!! Since 1996 I have been working with children - and the Internet. At the beginning - they "helped me" create a website - so that a father living in Brazil could keep track of his daughters life at school in Norway was like. Doing this - the firstgraders did learn hove to use the web sensibly. And what's even more important - they managed to see how easy it would be to write lies . In other words : "Not everything you read is necessarily the truth". To me this proved that even seven year old kids are able to take in messages about net-safety. In Norway - this is not taught before 10th grade ! (And this is a lost cause....) My dream would be to teach this to the kids from day one. Not much - but enough to make them realize the importance of this. Today - Over 70% of Norwegian kids have an FB account,a Myspace..., a Bebo, an MSN,account ....and so on - sadly without knowing the rules that should apply here.. This has become a major part of their social lives. At what time do US children start to learn net safety in schools? Just wondering. Olav
Since 1996 I have been working with children - and the Internet.
At the beginning - they "helped me" create a website - so that a father living in Brazil could keep track of his daughters life at school in Norway was like.
Doing this - the firstgraders did learn hove to use the web sensibly.
And what's even more important - they managed to see how easy it would be to write lies . In other words : "Not everything you read is necessarily the truth".
To me this proved that even seven year old kids are able to take in messages about net-safety.
In Norway - this is not taught before 10th grade ! (And this is a lost cause....)
My dream would be to teach this to the kids from day one. Not much - but enough to make them realize the importance of this.
Today - Over 70% of Norwegian kids have an FB account,a Myspace..., a Bebo, an MSN,account ....and so on - sadly without knowing the rules that should apply here.. This has become a major part of their social lives.
At what time do US children start to learn net safety in schools?
Just wondering.
Olav
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