When is young too young to talk about internet safety?
My students have laughed off internet safety as ‘stupid’. We were in discussion about ‘What is the internet?’ and the conversation turned to Bebo and other social networking sites.
How and at what age are we best to address the issue of Cyber safety with our students? What about with the Board of trustees? Principal? Senior management? And Staff? Are we to merely steer our students through the Microsoft applications or are we to prepare them for the internet fired workplace?
Having discussed what the internet is and the range of its use today I set them the task of reading and commenting upon a couple of blogs: Room18TIS and Student2.0 . They left comments - Some of them good, some of them not so. Apologies to the authors for any of my students comments that slipped past me!
Some found the abstract nature of the exercise difficult so I directed them all to my blog, this post in particular about David Hill’s visit . I thought the first hand experience of what the post was about would give them food for thought and a little more direction in their commenting…. hmmmm. I’ll let you be the judge.
But what concerned me was they were UNCONCERNED about the ‘global- anyone can read what I put’ and as you can see , there was a mix in the quality of their comments. I think also a lesson of two in Netiquette would not go amiss.
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