Between their math and literacy classes, these elementary school kids were studying up on perhaps one of the most important and least understood school subjects in America — how to protect their privacy, save their brains and survive the big, bad Web.
Classes such as these, though surprisingly rare, are spreading across the country amid hopes of preparing kids and parents for some of the core tensions of modern childhood: what limits to set around technologies whose long-term effects are unknown — and for whom young users are a prime audience.
—The new lesson plan for elementary school: Surviving the Internet
May 2, 2018
Millennials and GenZ are in the line of fire for these influences. Good to know that they are getting some help, however little!
It’s a whole new world.
it’s all a pioneering effort of sorts now.
we’ve never had this type of saturation of knowledge and opinions so readily available before! and all in nano seconds at that!
it will definitely be interesting for the generations to come.
and for us oldies to watch.
there are parts of it that i’m enjoying immensely!
It’s fascinating — the whole world is changing. Scary, but fascinating.
I think that the older generation has always been very concerned with privacy. That’s the way most of us were brought up. Not to share everything but we also were more trusting.
Now kids share more than they should. Nothing’s private.
They definitely need to be taught how to protect themselves too. Though they are probably more savvy about about the web and don’t fall for some things that the older generations does.
Everyone needs to be careful and could use some training.
Fingers crossed for us all!
I have to echo Cindi’s comments above.
Our generation and those below think of things in a different manner – it’s always been that way but these days the divide is much greater. The little ones are just starting out and don’t really know what he big wide world is all about so both we and them need special ed. where privacy and the www is concerned
Cathy
I hope it helps!
In many ways, I am happy that I am not a grandparent.
Me too!
I think the only way to guarantee your privacy on sites like Facebook is not to be on Facebook in the first place. However you adjust your privacy settings, someone somewhere will know how to hack your account and harvest all your personal information. But it’s good that schools are encouraging pupils to think about these social media-related issues rather than just mindlessly pouring out every little detail of their lives.
I seldom use Facebook and don’t post anything of mine there. I’ve never trusted it.