Web-ethics on the agendaSMS, Facebook, chat, World of Warcraft. Today, children and young people live a major part of their lives online in an everyday life where the borders between online and offline are blurred and online communications constitutes a central nerve. Integrating digital technology in teaching in primary school is about much more than just offering computers and internet to the students – it is every bit as relevant to take the digital media reality of children today as a starting point for developing the teaching methods. Digital media and technologies such as the mobile, wireless internet and social networking are not in opposition to teaching – on the contrary they hold the potential to improving and developing the very content of education.
The term web-ethics is gaining ground in school and this is a development which The Danish Media Council for Children and Young People, The National IT and Telecom Agency and UNI-C cooperate on supporting through a web-ethics section on the teachers portal www.emu.dk.
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