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One possible future for Elgg may lay in the Government’s e-strategy ‘Harnessing Technology’, published last year, which has a clear commitment to providing a Personal Learning Space (PLS) for every learner. The idea is to offer a facility to store course materials and assignments online, and a place to record achievements. In her introduction, Secretary of State for Education Ruth Kelly describes a future where Personal Learning Spaces will be able to remember what the learner is interested in and alert them to relevant websites, courses and other learning opportunities that fit their needs.
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
BBC NEWS | Technology | Cyber bullies haunt young online
BBC NEWS | Technology | Cyber bullies haunt young online
Bullies are increasingly using the internet to terrorise teenagers outside of school, a survey suggests.
More than 10% of UK teenagers said they had been bullied online, while 24% knew a victim, the MSN/YouGov survey found.
Bullies are increasingly using the internet to terrorise teenagers outside of school, a survey suggests.
More than 10% of UK teenagers said they had been bullied online, while 24% knew a victim, the MSN/YouGov survey found.
Thursday, March 09, 2006
IWF reports progress
Online child abuse - a decade on and the IWF reports progress
Good news from the IWF. This article from Silicon reports:
"In a decade, the number of sites hosted in the UK featuring child abuse images has fallen to 0.4 per cent of the global total from almost one in five in 1997.
There are also positive signs that sites listed on the IWF's Child Abuse Image (CAI) URL database aren't making their way onto increasingly graphic-rich mobile devices, with the UK's main network operators and some handset-makers using the CAI database to filter."
There also appears to be a case of double standards where middle America is concerned as they continue:
"However, looking to the rest of the world - and in particular Russia and the US where a lot of illegal sites are hosted - IWF CEO Peter Robbins said a lot more can be done."
Surely there can be no legal defense for allowing these sites to be hosted on American servers
Good news from the IWF. This article from Silicon reports:
"In a decade, the number of sites hosted in the UK featuring child abuse images has fallen to 0.4 per cent of the global total from almost one in five in 1997.
There are also positive signs that sites listed on the IWF's Child Abuse Image (CAI) URL database aren't making their way onto increasingly graphic-rich mobile devices, with the UK's main network operators and some handset-makers using the CAI database to filter."
There also appears to be a case of double standards where middle America is concerned as they continue:
"However, looking to the rest of the world - and in particular Russia and the US where a lot of illegal sites are hosted - IWF CEO Peter Robbins said a lot more can be done."
Surely there can be no legal defense for allowing these sites to be hosted on American servers
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