Cyber Security Industry Alliance (CSIA) - CSIA White Papers
Cyber Security Industry Alliance (CSIA) - CSIA White Papers
The Cyber Security Industry Alliance is right on the ball when it comes to promoting the teaching of online safety, ethics and security to children. The "Teaching Children Cyber Security and Ethics" white paper addresses concerns most teachers and parents have concerning children using the Internet. The alliance seeks not to filter or censor the Internet. The alliance does not once even mention DOPA (Delete Online Predators Act) and for that I must say "Hooray!" This alliance is all about educating children about safe Internet usage from kindergarten through senior high. Educating children in school and at home is the key to teaching them how to protect themselves and to encouraging appropriate online behavior.
I must say I felt so relieved to read this white paper because every time I encounter a school's heavily filtered Internet system or read an article about DOPA I cringe. These measures may protect children in the moment, but do absolutely nothing to teach children how to be safe in the future. Children do not stay children forever. They grow up and become adult Internet users. If support for filtering and censoring continues than we will have a society brimming with ignorant Internet users. The Cyber Security Industry Alliance is a proactive organization that wishes to use education to create truly savvy Internet users. If we must be reactive; let's react to the ideas within this white paper and support standardized measures for teaching Internet safety, ethics and security. No one is more qualified than school media specialists to carry out this mission-we have the future safety of all Americans in our hands!
The Cyber Security Industry Alliance is right on the ball when it comes to promoting the teaching of online safety, ethics and security to children. The "Teaching Children Cyber Security and Ethics" white paper addresses concerns most teachers and parents have concerning children using the Internet. The alliance seeks not to filter or censor the Internet. The alliance does not once even mention DOPA (Delete Online Predators Act) and for that I must say "Hooray!" This alliance is all about educating children about safe Internet usage from kindergarten through senior high. Educating children in school and at home is the key to teaching them how to protect themselves and to encouraging appropriate online behavior.
I must say I felt so relieved to read this white paper because every time I encounter a school's heavily filtered Internet system or read an article about DOPA I cringe. These measures may protect children in the moment, but do absolutely nothing to teach children how to be safe in the future. Children do not stay children forever. They grow up and become adult Internet users. If support for filtering and censoring continues than we will have a society brimming with ignorant Internet users. The Cyber Security Industry Alliance is a proactive organization that wishes to use education to create truly savvy Internet users. If we must be reactive; let's react to the ideas within this white paper and support standardized measures for teaching Internet safety, ethics and security. No one is more qualified than school media specialists to carry out this mission-we have the future safety of all Americans in our hands!
posted by Swicky at Sunday, October 29, 2006
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