On 7/11/05, Anthere <anthere9(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
Finally, if there many great editors (and absolutely all were very very
very nice to my son), there are also jerks running free. Kids have a lot
of confidence and trust in adults, I do not think it is a good idea to
let anyone free to influence them without any control. It is just not safe.
Hear hear!
Of course, this goes for the Internet as a whole - it's not just WP.
Obviously parental (or ILP) control is the way to go for children
using WP. Short of having some sort of volunteer assistant program to
help out identified child users, which would open any number of cans
of worms.
Parents (or teachers etc.) are best placed to assist, instruct, guide
and explain.
And what better Wiki-teacher than an editor? In fact, for some
non-editor parents, I suspect that it might be the kids telling the
parents how to use the technology!
--
Pete, who is beginning to think that his mobile phone is smarter than he is