This from TechBlorge.
The National School Boards Association has released details from its study of Internet use by students, taking a particular look at social networking sites. Their bottom line: that school districts should “reconsider their fears,” and “explore ways in which they could use social networking for educational purposes.” They also found that fears about online predators are hugely unwarranted, with only .08% of students reporting that they arranged to meet someone they met online.
Additionally,
76% of parents expect social networking will improve their children’s reading and writing skills, or help them express themselves more clearly, according to the study, and parents and communities “expect schools to take advantage of potentially powerful educational tools, including new technology.”
A caveat: The study was funded by Microsoft, News Corporation and Verizon.
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This report seems to believe that improper use of the Internet will be lessened with education. If this logic were true then the most educated people would never commit and crimes or have any vices. I wonder where they got their statistics. The Internet can be a great temptation and make the user a target for predators. In an ideal world morality, education, and self control would place poretcive boundaries on people. Alas, people are emtional and feeling beings who have moments of depression and vice. Internet use has great potetial but also has great dangers.
Eli
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Eli, if you click the link to the School Boards site, it will take you to the report on the study, with detail on “where they got their statistics from.”
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“This report seems to believe that improper use of the Internet will be lessened with education. If this logic were true then the most educated people would never commit and crimes or have any vices.”
No, by that logic educated people would commit fewer crimes, not zero crimes. The report says that education lessened improper Internet use. It didn’t say that eliminated it. You can’t eliminate it.