Cyber Security

Our reading this week on teaching children cyber security and ethics was thought provoking. I especially liked the idea of appealing to computer game designers and manufacturers to create games on these issues as a public service. Again and again, the article mentions that websites that address these issues tend to be very wordy, somewhat unproffesional looking, and contain games that might appeal only to the youngest and or most unsophisticated gamers. The average kid/teen is much more savvy about technology (though not the ethics of technology) than the average adult, I would say. For the average teacher, faced with teaching these issues, it is kind of like having to teach technical writing skills to engineers when you know almost nothing about engineering.