Answer to Question #200087 in English for Sam

Question

The internet offers young people amazing opportunities to connect and learn, but it can also expose them to content that is both age and developmentally unsuitable. Discuss five ways in which learners can be protected from accessing inappropriate online material during the use of internet as an educational research tool. [15]

NB: Your answer should not exceed 1 Page. Each discussed point will carry 3 marks.

Answer 1

Learners sometimes tend to use the internet to obtain inappropriate information such as pornography and very erotic movies. To avoid this some measures can be employed to curb this.

 Firstly, teachers and parents can install mature content filtering software. This software should be installed not only on the computers but also on the phones learners use (Cilliers and 2020). It automatically omits any wrong content such as pornography which may be accessed by learners on the internet.

Secondly, parents and teachers should always monitor the browsing apps the learners use to navigate through the internet. Through this, it won’t give them chance to access nudity and other inappropriate information.

Thirdly, learners should only play the online game ratings which are appropriate for their age (Chisago et Al 2020). This will avoid imitation of characters who are wrong at their age.

Fourthly one should not allow learners to contact activities such as online shopping without supervision by a guardian or a parent. This may give them a chance to access the wrong information.

Lastly, learners should be educated to keep private information private. This may include their real names, school, residential places, and passwords (Margolis and 2020). This is to avoid strangers from getting into their accounts and start sending them inappropriate videos, messages, and pictures.

 

 

 

References

Cilliers, L., & Chinyamurindi, W. (2020). Perceptions of cyberbullying in primary and secondary schools among student teachers in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. The Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries, 86(4), e12131.

Chisango, G., Marongwe, N., Mtsi, N., & Matyedi, T. E. (2020). Teachers’ perceptions of adopting information and communication technologies in teaching and learning at rural secondary schools in eastern cape, South Africa. Africa Education Review, 17(2), 1-19.

Margolis, R. D., & Ku, C. M. (2020). The" Difficult Learner" in anesthesiology: Challenges, pitfalls, and recommendations. Pediatric Anesthesia.