Growing Up Online

I believe that the impact on children are good and bad. Good because they have more access to information and studying tools, they can be in contact with distant family members and far away friends. It is bad because of the access the children have to sites that involve nudity, sexual content, death, or any other dark and unhealthy things. Yes I worry about where this will take our children, letting them have full access to the enourmous world of the Internet is asking for trouble, but it opens so many more educational programs and information. I do not know how I would survive without the internet, especiall facebook because that is how i keep in contact with my family, but when i look at other peoples profile i worry about their activities, and the lenghts they will go to just to get their video on YouTube. We as a country, and culture, is very violent, is the Internet do to that, probably, and especially all the games that involving killing. But now that we are past that point of return, so how are we going to fix it? How are we going to teach or children what is ok and what is not acceptable? As teachers it should be our duty to show students how to use the internet to their advantage, and what to watch out for when researching information. It should not be our duty to install morals and a sense of right and wrong, that should be the parents, and if it comes to that point where teachers are teaching morals than let's just let pray back into the schools, because that is about the same.