The article I read was called Cyber Savvy: Embracing Digital Safety and Civility, written by Nancy Williard. The first section is called Avoid the Impulse and it discusses how to encourage students to not go to websites that they know are not made for them and what they post online can always be reflected on themselves. The second section is called Read with Your Eyes Open and it discusses the skills that students need to learn about to see if a website is a credible source. For example, information on a .org or .gov website is more likely to be truthful rather than some .com websites such as Wikipedia . It also goes on to discuss other ways to keep children safe by using secure connection channels, monitor how much time they are online and to think before they post.
Personally I really think that this was a very informative article. Almost, if not everyone, should read it and learn what can happen online because there are many people that use social media and post very vulgar/childish things and think nothing of it. Here and now in this digital age some companies are doing research on the potential employee's social media history such as Facebook, twitter etc. to see what the person is like in and out of the work place. Many people will not get jobs because of things that they post are vulgar and inappropriate and that is just sad and for the world to grow intellectually people need to ALWAYS and adult and professional.
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