1. What Is the Internet? The Net is a worldwide collection of interconnected networks. The Internet Society http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=9hIQjrMHTv4

2. Internet History ARPANET 1969-1990 Internet InterNIC www.internic.net/ No person or organization governs the Internet! http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/04/01/14/0039213.shtml?tid=126&tid=188&tid=199&tid=95&tid=97

3. Types of Connections

4. Urban Albertans with Home Internet

5. Rural Albertans with Home Internet

7. Alberta SuperNet What is it…. SuperNet story What are some of the initiatives Alberta Learning is doing LearnAlberta.ca http://www.learnalberta.ca/ http://www.learnalberta.ca/ Reference centre each of you can access.

8. SuperNet Questions What are the potential positive educational outcomes? What are the potential negative educational outcomes? Is there a comprehensive plan for incorporating SuperNet into our educational system?

9. Media-Awareness Network http://www.media-awareness.ca/ Young Canadians in a Wired World http://www.media-awareness.ca/ More than 5,000 students in Grades 4 to 11 participated in the survey. They represented each province and territory, English and French language schools, and urban and rural environments. The majority of schools in the 2005 research also participated in the 2001 study. Canadian students: 94 percent of respondents now have Internet in the home, compared to 79 percent in 2001. Most of these (61 percent) have high-speed Internet service. Children’s use of email has also increased. In 2001, Young Canadians in a Wired World reported that 71 percent of kids had email accounts. In 2005, 86 percent have email accounts, most being free accounts such as Hotmail.

10. 41 percent have an MP3 player. 37 percent have their own computer with Internet access (as opposed to sharing a family computer). By Grade 11, 51 percent have their own computer. 23 percent have their own cell phone (six percent in Grade 4, rising to 46 percent in Grade 11). 22 percent have a Webcam for personal use (31 percent by Grade 11). The 2005 results show that, for the Grade 4 to 11 population:

11. Instant messaging ranks first, a choice of 62 percent of girls and 43 percent of boys. Playing games is the top choice in the younger grades (chosen by 54 percent of Grade 4 girls and 78 percent of Grade 4 boys) Listening to or downloading music is the third major activity of choice, selected by 41 percent of girls and 37 percent of boys. Kids picked the activities they like the best.

12. Electronics for personal use Overall percent who have the item for personal use appears in brackets after the label.

13. Proportion of kids who engage in online activities “on an average school day”

14. Kids’ total online activity

15. Rules in the home: 2001-2005

16. Have you pretended to be someone else online? Grades 7 - 11

17. Parental involvement has increased over the past four years Young people report having more house rules for Internet use than they had in 2001. The most common rule, which relates to meeting online acquaintances in person, is applied in 74 per cent of households. Fifty-four per cent of families had a rule about this activity in 2001. Almost double the number of students now say they are supervised by a parent when they go online. In 2001, seven per cent said they were mostly with a parent or adult when using the Net, while in 2005 the number is 13 per cent. The number of Internet rules drops with age. Kids in Grades 8 and 9 have approximately one-third fewer rules than younger kids do, precisely at a time when they are most likely to make friends online and visit inappropriate sites. In addition boys have fewer rules than girls do, even though boys are more likely to intentionally seek out inappropriate content. Internet rules make a difference! 14% (rules) vs. 43% (no-rules)

18. Rules about specific Internet activities make a considerable difference, especially for younger children. In households where there isn’t a rule about “sites you are not supposed to visit,” 43 per cent of students in Grades 6 and 7 have visited offensive and age-inappropriate sites. In households where there is a rule, 14 per cent of kids have visited these kinds of sites. While rules are less effective with older students, they still have an impact. In homes where there is a rule about not visiting certain sites, one-third (33 per cent) of Grade 10 and 11 students visited the sites, while in homes where there is no rule, nearly one-half (49 per cent) of students in Grades 10 and 11 visited them. The presence of household rules also correlates with an increase in the amount of time parents spend supervising their kids online. In households with no rules, 74 per cent of kids report that an adult is never present when they use the Net; at the other extreme, where several rules are in force, just 22 per cent report that they are never supervised.

19. The complete “favourite sites” list of approximately 5,000 survey participants includes more than 2,800 different sites. http://www.ebaumsworld.com/ http://www.ebaumsworld.com/