Off Route
Elizabeth Cejudo Ramos * Generally
questions my 9 year old daughter surprised me. I usually pause, buying time for managing to give a satisfactory answer. One afternoon, on the way home, the little co-pilot says, "Mom, can you help me open a blog?" I asked what it was or how it worked, she already knew. I just needed the authorization. I could not help remembering that at his age, the only way to interact with my peers outside the classroom was playing at recess. The request was granted, with all appropriate reservations. She created the online space just for girls, the forgot that a few days.
Just this week, I read in the press that the administrators of the Facebook network removed 20 000 accounts handled daily by children under 13 years, which indicates that hundreds of thousands of students in basic education have spaces in the network or use different sites for entertainment, as virtually all offer products that consume more online fun. It is natural that each generation develop skills to use technologies that are contemporary, this does not mean that as parents we do not take a moment to reflect on the use that our children give to the media. Not long ago
time, the possibility of access to the public through the media was a privilege that few had the big media conglomerates had total control over the flow of information worldwide. Internet has given ordinary citizens the opportunity to enter the public arena (even if your audience is small) and share their perceptions.
While the level of influence of social networks versus social and political events is a debate, so is that their use has shifted to interpersonal relationships and socialization processes. Much has been said about the dangers facing children in their role consumers of information generated websites, and although I consider it an issue of central importance, I would like to focus on the other party, what happens when, in addition to consumers, our children are sending?
bullying, which claims to abuse or intimidation to the same, is a term that enough has been said in recent years. The lonely boy's idea of \u200b\u200bour favorite TV shows no longer cute when we read reports of injuries, childhood depression and even suicide because of the constant abuse they receive from their peers. The matter becomes more complicated when the guilty act on condition of anonymity, backed behind the identity provides internet secret.
The so-called cyber-bullying consists of all acts of harassment, abuse, taunting and intimidating attitude toward any other person through web sites. This includes, in addition, photography and video records of attacks on colleagues within the school. Obviously, with all the anonymity in the inner circle of the affected are their predators. It is likely that those who engage in these practices either do not understand well the consequences of their actions. After all, are children who are still in formation and maturation. Therefore, intervention is necessary to exercise paternal and maternal surveillance to online activities for our children.
A group of British academics raised the need to implement a program of media literacy within primary and secondary schools to train students about the scope of the media and find ways for young people to make better use of those resources. The program has been successfully applied in several European and South American countries, it is clear that such projects difficult to come to our country, but as is achieved, the responsibility lies with parents.
all hope that our children do not fall into the category of victims or perpetrators. However, it is impossible to know and solve if we are outside the real and virtual world within which they develop.
* Assistant Master's Program in Social Studies at El Colegio de Sonora. Email: ecejudo@colson.edu.mx
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