New Wearable Technology: Today is Safer Internet Day. The events in the program, data and some valuable advice

Tuesday, February 7, 2017

Today is Safer Internet Day. The events in the program, data and some valuable advice – I am woman

No, we’re not yet evolved in this habitat, called a web. The proof is in the need of a day like this, the Safer Internet Day, the world day for the safety of the network, supported by a hundred Countries around the motto, "be the change: united for a better internet".

Just go on the portal of Generations Connected, which coordinates the project for the Italy – to get an idea of how many events will be organized today (round tables, projects, debates). In the Capitol, for example, Microsoft has its Digital Civility Index fresh of the study: is a study, carried out in 14 developed Countries, and split between teenagers and adult audience, to understand how still today is (not) secure the web.

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To scroll through the data, you see that among the most common risks for those who cruise there is "unwanted contact" (43% of the people has suffered at least once, regardless of age), via social or via chat. And then the trolling (insults, harassment), a practice that affects a person about 5. Not to mention the sexting, the receive erotic material (messages, photo, video) not required: it happened to the 24% of the sample.

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we urgently need a civic Education 4.0 as it is called in Rome the event today, organised by Microsoft Italia, Fondazione Mondo digitale, De Agostini Scuola, and the Postal and Communications Police, with the involvement of 250 Italian schools. To teach you how to "live well with others in a network" the big investment should be done on young people. Also why the under 20 now on the web go through life (this is not a way to say: 19% of teens Italian is connected between 5 and 10 hours per day, data from the ministry of education, 90% of them use daily WhatsApp, often the night).

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know More, more aware
Emerge some light, from the survey of Microsoft: the teenagers of today seem to be more available adults to share their experiences with on-line negative and are also more aware of their parents (48% of the 17enni know where to find information, for example, on cyberbullying, account the 26% of adults). the "About 2 boys on 3 claim to have had direct or indirect experience of the phenomena of cyberbullying. We find a significant increase in complaints of children against their peers for bullying and cyberbullying," says Nunzia Ciardi, director of the Postal and Communications Police.

Alberto Craftsmen, doctor-therapist of the evolutionary age, has just written with his wife, educational psychologist Barbara Tamborini The age of the tsunami (De Agostini, pp. 224, € 14): a guide to the use and consumption of parents bewildered by the younger of the sons, in which he gives great importance to the care of the education of digital (and will be also for this reason that the title is in the top of the charts on Amazon for weeks). We asked Craftsmen some practical suggestions to help parents make the "Safer Internet", that is the most safe, hospitable, educational the web. Every day, not just today.

Rule number 1: no orphan in the web
, it Seems incredible but the parents are hyper-protective as we are in real life, we become indifferent to the existence on-line of our children: we continue to make the parents even on the web.

Rule number 2: monitoring does not rhyme with spy
Carry out a "monitoring of education" online does not mean peek of born the social profile of the teenage son or his chat. Rather, ask them to share, at least at the beginning, the password, and openly discuss with him what happens in the network.

Rule 3: how to driving school
Because the first to give a machine in the hand of a little boy we send him to driving school and we do lots of lessons with him next and leave you groping on the web? You have to train the guys to acquire gradually the skills to be online alone: the freedom and the autonomy of a child of 10 years are different from those of one of 14 and one of 18.

Rule 4: the example counts most
The style, first of all. Three practical examples, to understand each other. If we chat while we drive, we give two wrong messages to our son. The first is that it is right to do more things at the same time and then none of the two deserves our full attention. In the specific case, we also pass an implicit to a behavior that is dangerous and punishable. The same applies to the publication of photos on social: if we spent years to publish his every grimace or game or another on Facebook how can we be credible when we explain that, as a teenager, it is good that you learn how to put markers on what they can publish or not, considered that the on-line trace remains of it all? And again: if we use in wrong way WhatsApp, maybe criticizing in the class group of parents to the prof, how can we then make it clear to our children the danger of gossip on line, erected to the system? Not to mention certain chat used among friends or colle agues crammed with images and video vernacular: the example on the use of digital devices in part from the small things of every day.

Rule number 5: responsibility towards the other
must Be inculcated with the principle of the responsibility to others. The guys use a lot of WhatsApp in order to communicate: we need to teach them the duty to intervene if a friend behaves badly or publish content unpleasant. How? Explaining that you should never produce comments in the wake after an offense launched in the chat, that should be blocked, the offensive comments of others and asked to do it also to all the members of the group to block the flame, and that is your right to ask for the intervention of an adult if the situation degenerates.