Keeping your children safe online

An introduction for parents
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This website supports a series of workshops designed to give parents a practical insight into what their children get up to with modern technology ... such as personal computers, mobile phones and particularly the internet.
 
Workshop topics covered include the world-wide-web, email, on-line shopping & gaming and so-called “social networking”. Emphasis is placed on the useful as well as the potentially harmful aspects of all of these. Materials have been drawn from a variety of publicly available sources including:
 

 

 

 

If you don't know your SMS from your PS3, the following might reassure you and help explain why some adults often have anxieties about new technology.

 

These three quotes are taken from his essay How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet by Douglas Adams - author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. 

 

 

 

  • “Everything that’s already in the world when you’re born
    is just normal;

 

 

  

 

  • “Anything invented between birth and thirty is incredibly exciting and creative and with any luck you can make a career out of it;

 

 

 

  • “Anything that gets invented after you’re thirty is against the natural order of things and the beginning of the end of civilization as we know it … until it’s been around for about ten years when it gradually turns out to be alright really."

 

 

 

 

 

This website contains a cut-down version of the presentation given to introduce the workshops, and there are some links to other resources used in the various workshops to help highlight certain issues. 

 

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