My English teacher at my high school allows us to use Wikipedia. Of course, I come from a high school, not an elementary school.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Skyring skyring@gmail.com Date: Jul 10, 2005 2:12 PM Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Re: On parents banning their children from Wikipedia To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@wikipedia.org
On 7/11/05, Anthere anthere9@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!
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