Blog about internet safety and copyright information

I think internet safety is very important because you never know who is on the other end of your screen. You can be talking to anyone, anything, anywhere, doing anything. When researching information it is really important to double check your sources and the information you find because anyone can put anything on the internet. Copyright information is very important as well, because as technology advances, the easier it is for teachers to know you didn't do your homework but doyourhomework.com (who stole their info straight from wikipedia) did. :) There are machines now that scan through your homework and pick up any words combined together to make someone else's sentence. Even if it is a common statement like "the sun is hot!" Someone somewhere has said it, so you may not have to quote that, but be ready to stand up for your information.

It is also very important to watch and keep track of where children are going because even if they stumble across a website that isn't too "friendly" for them, they need to understand why they can't go back there, even if they didn't know they were there in the first place. Many kids (depending on age) won't know what is right and what is wrong (they just think they are exploring) unless you tell and explain to them why it is.