Is the Internet Good for Our Children?

By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Lucy_Lewis]Lucy Lewis
I believe without the internet for our children we would be taking away a valuable source of learning material. I know my 13 year old step daughter would think it was the end of the world without the internet. Her whole life is online as she would say, I will never be able to understand how she can spend all day with her friends and then come home from school and automatically go onto the computer and chat to the same friends she has been with all day long. She spends 60% of her time on social networking sites such as 'Facebook' but the rest of time she uses a variety of different website program called Picnik where she creates and edits pictures enabling her creative side, she goes onto YouTube to listen to songs, she even goes onto Google and finds quizzes and i.q tests she can do, and when she wasn't happy with the result she does them over and over to try to improve. I know if I put an i.q test in front of her that she has to write on she will say no in an instant. Kids think that the internet is one big game.
She also searches the internet for websites that will improve her equations for maths at school and goes on the GCSE Bitesize website and studies on her own accord with no word from us that in itself is a big feat for my step daughter. Websites such as the GCSE Bitesize website is a fantastic site for children of all ages and it also has learning games which both of my step daughters love to go on. She's always playing online games which test her spatial and learning skills as well as her overall general knowledge, and again just like her i.q tests she repeats them over and over again until she gets them all correct.
She also makes her own movies on windows movie maker, she makes music videos and then puts them on 'YouTube' I do not understand this program even after looking at it for several minutes, I would not have a clue what to do. She uses Google as a tool to learn and has even admitted that she will often turn to Google when she is too embarrassed or shy to ask anyone directly. This is an excellent learning tool for children who like my step daughter who has questions that want answering, but doesn't know who to ask. This is what the internet offers for children today.
Even though kids may spend the majority of time in front of the computer they are learning something new every day, whether that would be on an intellectual level or a creative level, either way they are learning as long as there moves are monitored by a suitable adult and keeping them away from potentially dangerous websites then the internet is a really good thing.
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