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Cable in the Classroom and Common Sense Media recently conducted a poll through Harris Interactive that reveals the majority of parents and legal guardians are making sure their children are safe, responsible, and ethical while they use the Internet. WebProNews spoke with Dr. Helen Soule, the Executive Director of Cable in the Classroom about the survey. She discusses the key findings of the poll as well as defines the role of parents in this Internet booming society that we live in. Watch the full story with Abby Prince, only on WebProNews.
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How reassuring… the guys selling internet to kids sponsored a survey spinning the results as possitive.
71% of kids exposed to crap is not a problem somehow and, in the lack of any other controls it is the parents that are picking up this task.
The problem of course is that parents do not have the expertise, tools or really watching all the screens seen by the kids to play a role in this.
At a time when the medical field adds on-line addictions to their vocabulary, having influential folks sugar-coating the fact that “younger and younger kids spend more and more time online” is criminal.
Children shouldn’t be using the Internet at that age in schools… or at least not as intensively as it has become. Instead, children should be learning the basics from traditional instruction, lecture and discussion, and real honest-to-goodness *books*! They need to learn to research things on their own and gain critical thinking skills. Part of that is how to use an actual library. Then, as they get older, they will know how to actively *use* the Internet. But as it is now, the Internet - and computers in general - have become more of a crutch than an actual tool. Yes, the Internet is a powerful thing… but as with all such power, it demands a self-disciplined mind to use it wisely. And right now - maybe out of laziness and too much confidence in the technology - our children aren’t being encouraged to develop that discipline.