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Internet Safety for Parents. Will Richardson Weblogg-ed.com weblogged@gmail.com http://webloggedlinks.pbwiki.com. The news today…. Ringtones adults can’t hear…. 16-year olds flying to Tel Aviv. Changed World. …The Web. 1,000,000,000+ people. 10,000,000,000+ pages.
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Internet Safety for Parents Will Richardson Weblogg-ed.com weblogged@gmail.com http://webloggedlinks.pbwiki.com
1,000,000,000+ • people
10,000,000,000+ • pages
1,000,000,000,000+ • links
“We are at a turning point in the technology industry, and perhaps even in the history of the world.” • –Tim O’Reilly (May 14, 2006)
7 million new Web pages • each day • Link
“Society of Authorship” • “Age of Participation” • “Era of Collaboration” • “Age of Engagement”
“Uploaders” • --Thomas Friedman
Wikipedia • 1.2 million articles
But literacy is not just being able to read and write anymore.
When everyone can create and publish, we need to be editors as well.
In reality, safety, both personal and intellectual, is a literacy now.
"We do not realize how significant the Read-Write internet could be." • --Lawrence Lessig Author “Free Culture”
Markets are conversations. • --Cluetrain Manifesto
12 million kids • creating content online
Kids are “digital natives” • --Marc Prensky