7813 Digital Citizenship by

Who should be concerned with internet saftey?

jdcoth — 2013-07-20 20:29:11 UTC

Parents are the ones that have the issues, not kids!

The internet has opened up the world like never before. How much is too much?

jdcoth — 2013-07-20 20:34:00 UTC

Who has access to the web?

jdcoth — 2013-07-20 20:37:16 UTC

The above cartoon depicts sensorship of the web in

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China. Many areas of the word, in particular countries

with strained relationships with West, limit local access

to the internet. Access to the internet is not universal. The social, political and economic empacts of the internet are only now coming to light in cases such as the Arab Spring.

Privacy laws with regard to the internet

jdcoth — 2013-07-20 20:40:45 UTC

are not in step with the current technology.

It is often the case that governments, companies,

and individuals such as Google and Apple can

collect information about people (and share) with-

out breaking current privacy laws in the US.

Saftey on the web is like the old

jdcoth — 2013-07-20 20:42:45 UTC

child-proof caps on medicine bottles.

The only people it seems to keep out are

the adults! This is humor, of course! How-

ever, I can recall numerous times in which

students where able to get articales and

website up in my class with in seconds dispite

the firewalls and safety codes in place.

This website is Enough is Enough. This non-profit from the government of Virginia has created websites to education teens and adults on the the dangers of social media.

jdcoth — 2013-07-20 20:47:48 UTC

This article touches upon has current laws are just know being to catch up with the internet age. It spells out how we have little offial rights to privacy online.

jdcoth — 2013-07-20 20:51:48 UTC

Below is a news clip from KHOU that discusses the up coming HISD policy to provide laptops for students.

jdcoth — 2013-07-20 20:55:42 UTC

This article demonstrates how the access to the internet is widening to points many believed not possible even 10 years ago. Education is expanding access to technology rapidly in the 21st Century.

Here is an older article in which Google is sued by the government of China.

jdcoth — 2013-07-20 21:02:01 UTC