Internet Safety

Internet safety is essential and I think these videos and others like them are very important. They must be shown to all children, and they must be shown the videos at a very early age. I thought the second one was a little dull and boring and since children today are so used to fast paced everything I especially liked the third one, with the character, Clickie. I feel children today can relate to the fast pace and the message would stick . The video for older children should be shown in schools every year and I feel that it is also the responsibility of parents to not only educate their children on the dangers but establish rules and controls on computer use.
There have been children that have committed suicide due to cyber bullying and of course we are all aware of children who have gone missing because of run aways who think they are meeting other children. We do live in a scary world but I feel as teachers, parents and good members of society, it is essential to teach our children about these dangers. If children , though naturally curious and some with a propensity to get into mischief truly understood the dangers from an early age, would realize that the internet for all it's multitude of good should be used correctly for their own protection.

NJCCCS & NETS

Along with viewing the NJCCCS and the NETS standard, I wanted to comment that in the district I work for, we not only use them but are encouraged to put not only the core curriculum content standards in our lesson plan books for each course of the day, but also to include cross curriculum content standards which will include the technology standards as needed. In the global world we live in , all children should be using as much of the technology as possible. I also feel that most schools are still not implementing all the the standards soon enough in the students education process. I do hope they will soon catch up!

Hello,
This is my first blog post. I am taking an online course and will be blogging often.