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
started by olav ostvold on 05 Mar 09
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