Internet Safety for Children Essay

Afternoon Parents, thank you for joining me this evening. Today we will be discussing an article, published by The Atlantic - titled ‘The Overprotected kid’ - and its intriguing argument and ideas on child safety. Hannah Rosin - the author of the article - illustrates the cultural shift in safety in the 1970s to the modern ideology of ‘responsible parenting’. In her article, Hannah Rosin retorts back to how ‘childhood norms’ were like in the 70s, to highlight the how drastically parenting…

library, the digitized Encyclopedia Britannica CDs, and the, near ubiquitous, search engine one can see the rapidly changing environments of modern classrooms. Education has forever been changed by this access to the information super-highway. The internet, when used for education, allows students to develop the skills to navigate vast amounts of information, think critically, and determine credibility; this empowers students while preparing them for the future. Ensuring that all students have…

much more complex issue that is constantly disregarded as concerning matter. With technology evolving every day, social media can be accessed anywhere on any platform with bullying taking place on any one of them. Chapter two of Cyber Bullying and E-safety (Katz, 2012) assesses the several forms of bullying: verbal, physical, coercion, emotional, indirect and prejudice driven. Over the last forty years extensive research has been undertaken to document the long-term effects and concerns of…

scenarios- of parents unintentionally exposing their children. Through her use of jargony diction, refutation, and emotional appeals by means of skilled pathos, Lafrance effectively urges parents to think before they post and consider obtaining consent from their children before exhibiting them to the internet. Lafrance’s skillful choice of words aide in presenting her argument against broadcasting children on social media. Her use of internet jargon not only establishes her credibility…

home and be able to send their children to school feeling comfortable they will be safe throughout the day. What goes through one 's mind when they use gun violence? Why do they feel the need to harm innocent people? Parents try and find why this happens, but still get no true answers.…

explicit messages, photographs, or images via cell phone, computer, or any other digital devices.” As we have become such a technology-oriented world, these images become distributed rapidly via cell phones or the Internet and that is when the child’s life starts to unravel. One in four children has received an unwanted ‘sexting’ image via mobile phone, email or on social media. A disturbing trend is that teens have become engulfed into this phenomenon. A recent survey showed that 20% of teens…

devices during classes has been a discussed issue for long, because of problems regarding the safety of the wireless connection, the costs of using these kind of devices for learning institutions and the personal use each student does with them. Many researchers argue that technologies used during lectures are only damage for students, because they tend to pass their time on social networks or surfing in Internet rather than follow the lesson. According to Dr. Claire La Roche and Dr. Mary…

The Internet is a global area network that connects computer systems across the world, and provides many different online services. This essay will argue that one concern for users of Internet is cyberbullying, because people are using online profiles to attack other users. Firstly this essay will look at the Internet, explain the importance and consequences of cyberbullying and what is being done to address this problem. The Internet is the global system of interconnected computer networks that…

Pew Research Center found that 92% of kids go online constantly and about 500,000 predators are online daily. Teens and children are using the Internet more often now and some don’t know about the risks of meeting people online. Predators know when kids will be online and connected throughout the day. The perpetrators might stalk the child and try to find out more information about them. They think they’re safe behind their electronic screens, but truth is, they aren’t okay at all. Kids might…

org/special-collections/TechSafety.php#200 Technology-assisted abuse has also increased the danger for children and adolescents due to the prevalence of the internet and…