Since 98 I have tried to squeeze in media literacy\awareness\netiquette\net safety etc in the curriculum at school. NOT on the teen level but from day one. I have always tried to spend some time each week with my firstgraders working with this. The reason for this somewhat unorthodox approach are the signs we see every day. The users of the Internet are getting younger and younger.
The knowledge of how to navigate safely is vital to impose as soon as possible.
IMH - the older the children are , the more habits have to be changed. AND making a teenager understand is easy - but to get a young person to lay down "bad habits" is NOT easy.
It's a question of getting the children to play on you team - with your rules - and NOT run over them.
So - I have wanted to get media knowledge in the time-table , and my superiors still cling to : They have to learn touch !
Oh well......
Olav
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Rosech
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Aug 6, 2010 3:20 AM
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How to teach your child Manners:
1. Set a good example. It's unfair to expect politeness
of a child if his parents are not polite themselves.
2. Start using words and phrases like 'please,' 'thank
you,' 'excuse me,' 'I'm sorry,' and 'may I?' as early as
possible around your child. Encourage your child to
do the same. Take care what language you use
around children; they mimic the way adults speak.
3. Ask your child to address adults with a certain
degree of formality - that is, Ms. Lee, Mrs. Doe, Mr. Smith
- unless the adult tells them to do otherwise
4. Avoid ignoring bad behavior or waiting to talk about
it. Address a rule as soon as your child breaks it.
5. Bring up the behavior again in private so you can
discuss it more thoroughly and make sure your child
understands how to behave in the future.
6. Praise your child for good behavior.
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Your approach makes so much sense, I feel, Olav, because the "digital natives" are provided with tech tools at such an early age. When we give our children pencils and pens for the first time, we make sure they don't use them to poke their siblings or write on household walls. Is it way too simplistic to transfer this practice to digital tools? At the very least I feel these lessons on constructive use should be taught at the same time bullying starts at school, and - at least in my child's school - it started on the playground when he was in first grade. A police officer/online-safety educator I interviewed told me he addresses his talks primarily to 4th-graders, because they already know the work-arounds to Net filtering at school. That interview was several years ago, well before kids were uploading photos and video to social sites.
Anne
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Anne Collier
BlogSafety co-director
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olav
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Jan 7, 2007 10:40 PM
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Since 98 I have tried to squeeze in media literacy\awareness\netiquette\net safety etc in the curriculum at school. NOT on the teen level but from day one. I have always tried to spend some time each week with my firstgraders working with this. The reason for this somewhat unorthodox approach are the signs we see every day. The users of the Internet are getting younger and younger.
The knowledge of how to navigate safely is vital to impose as soon as possible.
IMH - the older the children are , the more habits have to be changed. AND making a teenager understand is easy - but to get a young person to lay down "bad habits" is NOT easy.
It's a question of getting the children to play on you team - with your rules - and NOT run over them.
So - I have wanted to get media knowledge in the time-table , and my superiors still cling to : They have to learn touch !
Oh well......
Olav
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