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CHILDREN AS YOUNG AS FIVE'TO BE TAUGHT DANGER OF INTERNET

Postby Daanyeer » Fri Dec 11, 2009 11:31 am

Children as young as five 'to be taught about the dangers of the internet'

Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/n ... ernet.html

Every primary school child in the country will be taught about the dangers of the internet and how to safely surf online, Gordon Brown has announced.

By Kate Devlin and Urmee Khan
Published: 12:29PM GMT 08 Dec 2009

Ministers are worried about the risks youngsters face using websites and social networking sites, such as Facebook, unsupervised.

As part of a wide-ranging series of measures children from the age of five will be taught about internet safety in the classroom, including a new ‘online green cross code’.




Ministers hope that making the lessons a compulsory part of the primary school curriculum for the first time will help tackle cyber-bullying and the online grooming of children by paedophiles.

At the moment many secondary school pupils receive lessons in online safety, but ministers are convinced that these need to start from an earlier age because children are becoming technologically savvy younger.

Instead of urging young people to ‘stop, look and listen’ the new code will instead advise them to ‘zip it, block it, flag it’.

The message is a call to children to be careful not to reveal personal information online, to block emails or approaches from unknown people or sites and to report anything suspicious.

The announcement comes as a new survey reveals that almost one in five children say that they have seen harmful or inappropriate images while surfing the internet.

Many also said that their parents do not know what they do online.

An EU-wide study suggests that 40 per cent of teenagers have been exposed to pornography online while 20 per cent have experienced internet bullying.

The new “Click Clever, Click Safe’ campaign comes in response to a report by Prof Tanya Byron, the child psychologist and broadcaster, who was asked by the Government to consider how to protect children online.

As part of the plans an online ‘panic button’ will be installed in software on 270,000 laptops which the Government is helping underprivileged families to buy as part of its Home Access computer scheme.

Already adopted by the social networking site Bebo, ministers hope that the button, which sends a message to the Child Exploitation and Online Protection centre (CEOP), the child protection taskforce, will also become a feature of other websites in the future.

Sites could also agree to remove doctored photographs or falsely created profile within 24 hours of a complaint under a series of “standards” being negotiated by the industry.

Prof Byron said that she hoped these standards, which are still the subject of tense discussions, will be in place by the summer.

She told the launch of the strategy that action to implement her report had not “as quickly as I would have liked”

The internet safety strategy has been drawn up by the UK Council for Child Internet Safety (UKCCIS), a group of 140 organisations including Government departments and industry leaders like Google and Nintendo, which was set up in the wake of Prof Byron’s report last year.

Mr Brown said: "The internet provides our children with a world of entertainment, opportunity and knowledge – a world literally at their fingertips.

“But we must ensure that the virtual world is as safe for them as this one.

"Today we are launching our online version of the 'green cross code'.

“We hope that ‘zip it, block it, flag it’ will become as familiar to this generation as ‘stop, look, listen’ did to the last."

But teaching unions warn that the plan to instruct all primary school children on how to safely use the internet could overburden an already full curriculum.

Christine Blower, general secretary of the National Union of Teachers, said: “The inevitable question is how schools can cope with further curriculum requirements.

“We need, therefore, to ask ourselves whether it is schools that should take the responsibility for firefighting measures, or whether such a responsibility should rest on the shoulders of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) for tackling the publication of offensive material at source.”

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