środa, 29 lutego 2012

Internet without any barriers for kids?

    Today I want to touch subject of internet as a "place", whose anyone can enter without any barriers.
    Litteraly ANYONE. If I'm five, can sit high enough to see computer and have ability of holding mouse and, of course, can read even if a little, I have opportunity to become a part of e-community.
    Why however, you think, is it so important?
     Like I said, virtual community have any rules, nothing make you stop. So what users can do to don't get lost in this space?
    We, older users, are able to decide and get distance from what we hear and see in net. Also sometimes, what would we ignore.
    But there, in World Wide Web, are creatures, whom can't defend themselves.
    Yes - I talking about kids, group of users, whom haven't this capacity to know that they will take precautions to make sure, that nothing wrong happend to them - nobody cheat to them and trick them out to get theirs adress, password, or persuade some child to do something he/she normally won't do.
    Every day many people are robbed thanks to hackers in just couple of minutes. Some jealous girl showing other up. Some bright-mind put virus to computers of bully, whom taunted him in "real life". I even won't tell how easy is today to impersonate.

                                                         
    Lets imagine, that some ten years old girl is just surfing the net.
    How much easier will she became victim of phishing or cyber-bulling? What will she do, if that happend? How will she react?
    Some of you will rolling your eyes now, but let be serious: how many olders kids, teenagers, even mature people, broke down because of things like that?


    It makes me to ask most intruging, to me, question.
    How long, would children have to use computer under controling eyes of their mom or dad to be ready do it themselves?
    Will Parental Controle be enough?
                            

                                                Save internet for your child 
                                         

wtorek, 28 lutego 2012

ICT - to make our daily life better

    There is no man, all world long and wide, whom don't know, what exacly mobile phone, or internet is. Every one of us have something in common with Information and Communication Technologies, even when we don't know about it.
    When we shopping with our credit cards, talking with our friends( whom exacly are on holidays on Bahama) by skype, searching something what we need to know with Google, downloading our favourite bands mp3, paying our bills online...we don't think about it, that our parents didn't have it.
    It's so normal for us to take cell and send message or pick number by speed dial, so we just can't understand how it's possible, that our parents maybe aren't able to switch on computer, or ask us incessantly "What, the hell, button will I push to hang up?! "
    However, they still are going to take credit cards and withdraw some money from cash machine. Father will be watching news, mother switch on radio. When it'll be necessary, they will go to doc, whom order them to do some examination whos will be make only thanks to high-tech.   
    In my opinion, if somebody says "I can do great without communication technologie, because it's nothing big to me.", is just laying.
    You don't belive me? Right. Do some experiment and try evade your computer for three days, or put somewhere your mobile and make sure won't touch it in this time.
    It seems to be so easy...but in practice it will be disaster - you will be piss off, fed up, brown off, disappoint...no matter how you name it - it still will be this stupid feelings, that you will do that, look at your cell, send e-mail, chat somebody you want to...
    How many of us bought by e-commerce even if once? How many is part of VLE?
    ICT became so important in our daily life and I don't think, that somebody can today function without that little ways to do our life easier and more comfortable.

                                      
                                           How ICT improve our life


 
 If you wanna to know more interesting things about ICT, I can invite you to join to The Open University . Pay special atencion to point 2.2 at left side. Have fun!