A great positive with ICT is communication and keeping up to date with friends. As alot of friends of mine go to different uni's all around the country internet sites such as Facebook is a brilliant, free way of communication. It keeps you updated with birthdays and looking at photos is good fun. Instead of writing out paper invitations, or sending lots and lots of txt messages to invite friends to birthday parties and gatherings it is now easy to send a group invitation over the internet. This shows a big change in technology over the last few years and is a definate positive. Children are growing up with these sites with Bebo another big one.
My one worry with sites like Bebo is security for the children. Children would not be allowed to speak to strangers if walking to the park, so is it right that they should be allowed access to do this on the internet? if I had children I would worry about this and as a teacher I think teaching internet safety should be applied within schools if we are promoting internet use. Will this be considered though? We need to take responsibilty.
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