Some Winnipeg students are learning about social media safety

[wickedplayer494]

[url]http://globalnews.ca/news/1651317/winnipeg-students-benefiting-from-nhl-lockout-two-years-later/[/url]

[quote=Global]Click by click Sterling McLeod is becoming a little safer.

The Grade 5 student is one of 80 children at Dufferin School who are learning how to safely navigate social media through an online program funded by the NHL and NHL Players’ Association.

“If you don’t stay safe, then bad things will happen to you,” said McLeod. “And your risk of getting into trouble is higher.”

The program is called Future Goals and was created out of the 2012-13 NHL lockout.[/quote]

Let's face facts, they're going to piss it all away within half a decade and start dumping "text me at 204-123-4567 pls" posts like most already do today.

[Punchy]

While i agree it's good to teach kids about online safety and manners, majority of my knowledge was all self taught because you can tell a child to not do anything but they really won't understand why they can't until they sneak behind you and try it. That said, i hope the kids learn something from it..

[Chris™]

All it is is 'stranger danger' for the 21st century and as said so long as kids learn something useful from it I'm all for it!

[Phauve]

Hey look it's another Winnipeg news post! Time to rep Winnipeg. :v:

Also, this reminds me of the agendas we would get in middle school where they had internet safety tips and internet acronyms.
Basically shit no one ever used.

[greeds]

[QUOTE] “If you don’t stay safe, then bad things will happen to you,” said McLeod. “And your risk of getting into trouble is higher.” [/QUOTE]

I like the social complexity that Cody McLeod inputs onto the question

[RoflKawpter]

Winnipeg Represent!!!!

we should meet(meat) up sometime!

[wickedplayer494]

I would probably be more concerned that this school is still using XP many moons after it died:

[t]http://i.imgur.com/QqLZx6D.png?1[/t]

Hell, there's going to be a fire sale on Win7 HP and Ultimate keys not long from now since Microsoft stopped handing out new keys for every edition sans Pro.

[proboardslol]

Im conflicted about the internet. Obviously I don't want my daughter getting raped by some dude with a fake eye and a hook for a hand, but I consider a lot of the things I learned to have come from the internet. I think Porn, for example, is a perfectly natural thing for a young person to start getting curious about, so it's not something I will monitor or block (nor will it be something i openly encourage, of course). I want to respect her privacy, but I want to make sure that she's not giving out personal info to random strangers either.

Also I shall start her on Linux

[Jamsponge]

[QUOTE=wickedplayer494;46417137]I would probably be more concerned that this school is still using XP many moons after it died:

[t]http://i.imgur.com/QqLZx6D.png?1[/t]

Hell, there's going to be a fire sale on Win7 HP and Ultimate keys not long from now since Microsoft stopped handing out new keys for every edition sans Pro.[/QUOTE]
A lot of primary schools stick with old OSes because their Internet usage is limited and they tend to use old programs which don't always run on newer systems.