Rapporter från Becta

Becta - det statliga organ i Storbritanniens som har i uppdrag att säkerställa "the effective and innovative use of technology throughout learning" publicerar fortlöpande rapporter om unga och IT. En av de senaste handlar om säkerhet: E-safety and Web 2.0. Så här skriver de på sidan 33:

Schools do not forbid children from walking unaccompanied to school because of the risk of a child being abducted or injured crossing a road. They do not prevent general access to the school playground because of incidents of bullying. In these areas, policy has evolved over time to balance the likely risks against the benefits to children of exercise and creative play, also taking account of pragmatic issues such as difficulty of prevention and the value of getting children out of the school buildings over break time.

Man försöker också hitta orsaker till den här skillnaden och påpekar att det inte kan vara lärare som står för hela förändringen:

Any substantial change cannot come from teachers alone; innovating teachers and schools need the support of policy-makers and local authorities. The evidence from this study is that children are engaging with a wide range of social, creative and engaging web activities at home, and this is producing a growing divide between such web-confident children and those who are restricted to using the web at school to retrieve specific information from pre-approved websites.

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