Essay On Internet Safety

It sounds like the complaint of an adult: children these days are narrow-minded, just not as creative or social as they used to be because of the internet; but the American Psychiatric Association think that childrens digital journey makes them well-informed, happy, social and lets them keep up with technology. The 20th century is an era with many inventions that developed by humans to make life easier and, the internet is one of the most important inventions that completely changed the world; but there is a perception that internet is full of unnecessary websites and children will learn inappropriate informations from them and also there is a current debate surrounding the topic of cyber safety, too. But at this point the solution is not speaking ill of the internet or not giving permission to children to surf the internet. As a passionate blogger about communication, Nick

Also they can remember what they have researched for much longer than that gained through traditional rote learning, so the internet can harm, but can also be a child's best learning device if it used in right ways. Sugata Mitra who is a professor of educational technology at Newcastle Univercity and the best lecturer of TED 2013, has made the Hole in the Wall experiment, where a computer was put in a wall in Delhi for children to use freely. His aim was to prove young people could be taught computers easily without formal training. He says ‘’ Computers do not do anything of the sort.’’ about the rumours that computers make children more isolated and antisocial and he advices not allow the children to access the internet alone in their own rooms with tiny devices. He thinks ,putting a big, high definitioned computer in the living room that everyone can look at and telling to children that they can do whatever they want, can solve all the problems about the wrong usage. (The