I have a young child at primary school who needs to be and will be taught all applicable Laws etc and netiquette.For her own good as well as that of others.
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That's a really good plan.
Our school has specific internet lessons in a compulsory subject called Personal Development where they are taught all about appropriate and safe internet usage. They even have had guest speakers from the police and other organizations come in to talk about the dangers etc...... but still after all that - it doesn't seem to always get through *sigh*
The school IT security department periodically does searches on its students and recently a simple google search of student names revealed all sorts of stuff from their facebook accounts to twitter accounts some photo storage place - and so many of the kids had put up so much info that was there for all to see.
The earmarked students were bought into school to work with the IT security department to "clean everything up",
We're lucky that our school takes such proactive measures, but I don't think many other schools go to these extremes.... so it's scary to think about what information about other kids is "out there".
(Our school even monitors what apps they have on their iPads - LOL - and for some techy reason I don't understand, any apps or music that I have on my iPad all goes onto theirs as well....... Not a big deal except I have to wade through hundreds of mind numbing songs or skim past heaps of kiddy apps, but I downloaded an album by Rhianna, and it came up on the kids iPads as well - even when we deleted it it kept coming back on, but we didn't realize this until one of the checks revealed its presence and the poor kid got detention for having inappropriate material on his device *blush*)
Some people can go their whole lives and never really live for a single minute.
