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GENERATIONAL GAP
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It can be a tough job keeping up to date with kids these days! Many parents lack the skills to guide their children's Internet use. And also at school… - many adults can feel intimidated in using the Internet and are baffled by some of the terms and technology: 20% of British parents could not help their children to use the Internet safely, London Schools of Economics says, due to being Internet-illiterate; (1)
- most kids know more about the Internet than adults do. As a result, many parents do not supervise their children's Internet use. Here are some US surprising statistics: an estimated 20% of parents do not supervise their children's Internet use at all; only 52% of parents moderately supervise their children's Internet use; some 71% of parents stop supervising Internet use by their children after the age of 14, yet 72% of all Internet-related missing children cases involve children who are 15 years of age or older; close to 62% of teens say their parents know little or nothing about the websites they visit;
- a 2002 study from Pew Internet & American Life indicates that 78% of middle and high school students in the US use the Internet. However, most American teenagers claim that educators often don’t know how, don’t want, or aren’t able to use online tools to help them learn or enrich their studies. A large number of students believe that the US government’s efforts to wire schools is at risk of being squandered unless there is a similar commitment to improving connectivity in classrooms. Most US students say that the single greatest barrier to Internet use at school is the quality of access to the Net;
- more than 3/4 of US high-speed kids are saying they are forced to slow down at school, as a Grunwald Associates report finds that students aged 6 to 17 believe their Internet access in the classroom is often slower than their home connections. (2)
(1) In a two-year project, whose result have been published in April 2005, researchers spoke to 1,511 kids (aged 9-19) and over 900 of their parents.
(2) The Grunwald Associates report also found that both kids and their parents expressed dissatisfaction with the amount of time they are able to be online at school.
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