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  • Last week Chairman Julius Genachowski unveiled the children-and-family part of the FCC's universal broadband plan, designed to enable, among other things, 21st-century education. There's just one problem: Schools have long turned to law enforcement for guidance in informing their communities about youth safety on the Net, broadband or otherwise, and the guidance they're getting scares parents, school officials, and children about using the Internet.
  • There is a tendency among law enforcement officials to think that scare tactics are effective in reducing risk behavior. Research has never found this to be so."
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 16 Mar 10
       
      Dangerous activity is attractive to many kids.
  • As sociologist H. Wesley Perkins has pointed out, however, this kind of traditional strategy 'has not changed behavior one percent'."
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  • the predominant approach in the field of health promotion sought to motivate behavior change by highlighting risk.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 16 Mar 10
       
      As soon as teachers start talking about the dangers of the Internet, students want to try it.
  • What has "revolutionized the field of health promotion," according to the UVA Institute: the social-norms approach.
  • as a society, we can lower public resistance to broadband adoption and begin to free up American education to do for children's use of new media what it has long done for their use of books: guide and enrich them (examples here and here). But not only that: School will become more relevant to our highly new-media-engaged kids, and students will become more engaged.
  • anonymous on 16 Mar 10
     
    "Last week Chairman Julius Genachowski unveiled the children-and-family part of the FCC's universal broadband plan, designed to enable, among other things, 21st-century education. There's just one problem: Schools have long turned to law enforcement for guidance in informing their communities about youth safety on the Net, broadband or otherwise, and the guidance they're getting scares parents, school officials, and children about using the Internet. "
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