Computer ethics is a part of practical philosophy which concerns with how computing professionals should make decisions regarding professional and social conduct.

1. Presentation Topic
Children and Future Internet

2. Introduction
• In most Western countries the internet is increasing to be a
medium only for the privileged ‘early adopters’ and is
reaching the mass market, although access remains heavily
stratified. As work, leisure and educational markets
continue to expand, over the coming decade the internet
will become taken for granted in our homes.

3. Concerns When Using the
Internet at Home and School
•Porn
•ID theft
•Viruses
•Weird people
•Getting lost
•Spending too much time
•Cyber-bullying
•Offensive language and
Adult Content
•Cost of equipment
•Inappropriate Advertisements

4. Advantages of Using the
Internet at Home and School
• Students are able to access all information at home and can get easy
accessible information for projects and regular learning purposes without
leaving home
• The internet provides more information about what they can learn and how
they can learn it
• Provides increased motivation along with more improved and efficient
presentations
• Can connect learning at school with learning at home.

5. Impact Of Technology On Children

6. Impact Of Technology On Children
Positive Impacts
• Help in Education
The technology has been proven to be useful in education.
Children can access the web and get the detailed knowledge
about any topic. The education games help them to perform
well in academics.
• Competition Skills
All kids like to play video games. When playing such games with
their friends/relatives, they earn the competition skills. The
competition skills that children learn from the video games help
them compete with others in the real world.

7. Impact Of Technology On Children
Negative Impacts
• Health Problems
The technology is causing many health issues in children. The
surveys conducted from time to time tell that due to increasing
use of gadgets, children are suffering from the health problems
like back pain, weak eyesight etc. Due to less physical activities,
the fatness is common to see in today’s children.
• Social Relationship
Technological gadgets have posed a bad impact on social
relationships. Children are addicted to gadgets. They don’t have
time to sit with their parents and to spend some good time with
them. They prefer to connect with their friends and relatives via
text messaging, chatting etc., rather than meeting them actually.
Means, they are connected with others in the virtual world, but
not in the real world.

8. Impact Of Media On Children
• Sexual behavior: Potentially harmful messages about sex in
the media may lead to unhealthy sexual behavior
• Children and teenagers tend to consider media as the primary
source of information about sex Sexual solicitation.
• In future media may provide easy access to the sexual
offenders to target children.

9. Negative Impact on Character
• This is one of the biggest problems created by growing
technology. Children are future of our country, our world.
The sad thing is that due to increasing technology,
children have been found going away from their moral
values. Internet is working as curse for children’s
character. Rather than using Internet in productive
manner, children use it as source of adult content.

10. Negative Impact on Writing Skills
• Writing is an art which every person must own.
Technology has its negative effect on writing skills of
children. Standard English is not used in the text
messaging, chatting. While writing text messages, no one
cares about the spelling, punctuation and grammar. This
is resulting in poor writing skills of children.

11. What Parents Can Do
 Install software to block potentially
“bad sites”
 Ask questions about what safeguards
are being utilized at your child’s
school, friend’s houses, etc.
 Keep your home computer in a
common room of the house, not in a
child’s bedroom
 Spend time with your children on the
internet, have them show you their
favorite websites
 Teach your children how to use online
resources responsibly
 Talk with your kids about how to use
programs such as IM safely

12. SOCIAL MEDIA
Definition:
Social Media are the platforms that enable the interactive web
by engaging users to participate in, comment on and create
content as means of communicating with their social graph,
other users and the public.

13. IMPACT OF SOCIAL MEDIA
There are three broad ways in which electronic media can
impact,
child development and wellbeing:
 In terms of the impact of its content
 In terms of the impact of interactive activity
 In terms of other activities which it replaces

14. STATISTICS
• At 2 years more than 90% of all American children have an
online history
• At 5 more than 50% regularly interact with a computer or
tablet device
• At 7 or 8 many children regularly play video games
• Teenagers text an average of 3,400 times a month
• By middle school children spend more time with media than
with their parents or teachers or other activities

15. POTENTIAL HARMFUL
EFFECTS

16. POTENTIAL HARMFUL
EFFECTS
• Suicide: Reporting and portrayal of suicide in media may
increase the incidence of suicides in children .

17. POTENTIAL HARMFUL
EFFECTS
• Crime: Media-assisted crimes like identity theft and child
pornography are taking new forms and may influence security
of future children .

18. POTENTIAL HARMFUL
EFFECTS
• Cyber bullying: Cyber bullying is a growing phenomenon in
virtual communication environments.
• Technology has given it a new platform of action at a faster
speed involving a number of people at the same time.