{"id":1000,"date":"2015-02-10T09:25:05","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T17:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/internetsafety.trendmicro.com\/?p=1000"},"modified":"2015-02-10T09:25:05","modified_gmt":"2015-02-10T17:25:05","slug":"let-our-kids-help-create-a-better-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/internet-safety\/blog\/let-our-kids-help-create-a-better-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"Better Together: Let Our Kids Help Create A Better Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"

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February 10, 2015<\/em><\/p>\n

Below\u00a0is an excerpt from a piece posted on EdTech Digest on February 9.<\/p>\n

By Lynette Owens<\/p>\n

Each year, many<\/strong> countries, organizations, governments, schools, and individuals around the world have used\u00a0Safer Internet Day<\/a><\/strong> to raise awareness about a wide range of issues pertaining to the safe and responsible use of the Internet. This year\u2019s theme is \u201cLet\u2019s Create A Better Internet Together.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since 2010, we have celebrated this annual day with the \u201cWhat\u2019s Your Story?<\/a>\u201d campaign. By design, we don\u2019t say much. Instead, we encourage young people \u2013 with their classrooms or as individuals \u2013 to tell the world how they see things and what it means to be great at being online.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s just admit: kids know a lot<\/strong><\/p>\n

It seems in many cases, the public dialogue about safe, respectful, and productive technology use has disproportionately been centered on kids. It makes sense as they are who we all believe to be the most vulnerable and in need of the most guidance with the Internet. But the issues of online safety, privacy, piracy, bullying, and overall digital literacy is not only a youth issue. We all need more education and sometimes reminding of what it means to use the Internet wisely.<\/p>\n

Parents and educators don\u2019t have the luxury of recalling their past to guide kids. Beyond the obvious rules and laws about appropriate use, we\u2019re all learning and shaping the rules and norms of appropriate Internet use together. It doesn\u2019t matter how old you are, how you use it, or when you use it.<\/p>\n

There are 37 million kids aged 3-17 that have access to the Internet, representing 18% of all who have Internet access in the U.S. They are some of the earliest adopters of technology, and certainly those designed as social networks. While we are all worried about them and working furiously to make sure they have the right guidance to navigate the Internet safely and successfully, it\u2019s very likely that we\u2019re still coming up short because we, ourselves, don\u2019t know enough to advise them of everything. Technology is changing so rapidly and the way we\u2019re using it even more so.<\/p>\n

Read the full post on EdTech Digest here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Each year, many countries, organizations, governments, schools, and individuals around the world have used Safer Internet Day to raise awareness about a wide range of issues pertaining to the safe and responsible use of the Internet. This year\u2019s theme is \u201cLet\u2019s Create A Better Internet Together.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since 2010, we have celebrated this annual day with the \u201cWhat\u2019s Your Story?\u201d campaign. By design, we don\u2019t say much. Instead, we encourage young people \u2013 with their classrooms or as individuals \u2013 to tell the world how they see things and what it means to be great at being online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[84,58,44,7,8,47,6,16,5,11,48,66,25,10,57,60,23,55,88,12,82,21],"class_list":["post-1000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-for-parents","category-for-teachers","tag-apps","tag-bullying","tag-coppa","tag-cyberbullying","tag-digital-citizenship","tag-digital-literacy","tag-education","tag-facebook","tag-internet-safety","tag-kids","tag-media-literacy","tag-mobile","tag-online-privacy","tag-online-safety","tag-parents","tag-piracy","tag-privacy","tag-security","tag-social-media","tag-social-networking","tag-social-networks","tag-teens","wpautop"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t