1.1 Explain The Importance Of The Internet To The Study

As technology is improved so much even children and young people has started using internet for study purpose and to access some information. As an adult we need to keep it in mind to protect them and to teach them the risks with internet. We should tell them not to give any personal information to anyone and not to talk with anyone whom they don’t know. As social networking is in much use we should inform the children not to upload any personal photos or videos as they can be misused and can create problems later on. In the school environment the administrator or authority deals with that by restricting the access of the children to some unwanted websites. The parents too need to teach the children about the e-safety and the risks with it. Majority of the children these days are using mobile phones in daily use. The main purpose of their usage of mobile phones is for texting and sending instant messages to their friends, to take photos and videos, to listen to the MP3, play games, sending e-mails and in some mobiles they can even use the internet for getting information. The mobile operators filter the websites and restrict the children from going into some adult websites or websites with mature content. By this we can keep the children away from gambling and pornography websites. We need to tell the children it’s not good to give their phone numbers to anyone and not to share their photos in internet. One more important thing is Bluetooth, the children should be aware that using Bluetooth is not safe as wherever there is a signal there is a possibility of another Bluetooth enabled devices to get all the personal information and data from the phone and that is not at all safe. The children should know about e-safety. When using emails the children should know not to open any spam emails and not to click on any links as …show more content…
Cyber-bullying is the most common problem which the young children are facing. The most common places where cyber-bullying occurs are in chat rooms and e-mails and messages. The children and young people who are victimised with this start to feel sad or angry or disrespected. In school environments this can be monitored by keeping the language to the minimum, restricting them from inappropriate materials and making it safe for the children and young people. We need to teach the children about e-safety and how to keep themselves safe from the internet, not to share any personal information, photos or videos and not to accept friend request from unknown people as it is unsafe to talk with them. The children should be aware of the difference between known and unknown/bogus …show more content…
Some of the schools and college going children uses internet and they do online shopping of buying books and other stuff. We need to teach them how to identify a genuine site and not to give the credit or debit card details in any unknown websites. The bogus websites also look similar to the actual websites and it is very stressful to know whether it is genuine or scam site. Not to download/install any malicious software in the system as there is a possibility of getting our personal information stolen. The children should create a strong password in the buying websites and always need to take the printout of the invoice and need to check in the bank statement whether it’s done correctly or