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Yes, it would be nice if every child would learn these basics in school.

by pvorb 8y ago

eecc 8y ago
Yes, learning to be good consumers is way more important than basic skills such as maths, reading, writing and general critical thinking /s
- krotton 8y ago
  We do teach kids not to talk to strangers in the street and consider it quite important, I think. What's so much different about teaching them how not to get robbed on-line? It's not about being a good consumer, but about minding your own feet.
amygdyl 8y ago
I am expanding the idea that I posited above, to use the USPTO, for one canonical answer for every query concerning the identity of business services on the Internet... This involves providing both clear identity confirmation and the Favicon, to the browser, from USPTO managed servers, to visually green light to the user, the correct online correspondent. Schools are a excellent arbiter of the quality and integrity of known correspondents online. Nota bene, I say known correspondents, I am limiting this idea to whitelist sites and services only. Color borders surrounding each Favicon, can briefly flash. I want as a parent, to need only glance at the top left corner of the browser that my son is using. Kids don't want my criticism of what they find a engaging experience. My colleagues don't want my analytical views of their Economist newspaper reading, for that matter...But I think it would be great to see really one look response to a parent's concern. This animation can be enlivened by a cursor across the toolbar or similar gesture. "No worries, dad" is a great positive action to encourage. Because it's not about censorship, it's about learning what authenticity is. I imagine a nice modern pulsating heartbeat that's restful, for a positive identification of a trusted correspondent, and a fluttering and increasingly flashy, insistent nagging for a warning. I will add to my wishlist, the ability to sign a local whitelist sites database, complete with ticketing system, to which the kids are able to submit the arguments for, for example, sites and blogs that are not within the penumbral enclave of this identity umbrella.
friendzis 8y ago
Which would be called computer literacy. I find it both awesome and terrifying that people can successfully do jobs that require working on a computer and still be computer illiterates. Awesome in a sense that it illustrates how good computer interfaces actually are and terrifying in a sense that in any profession with heavy machinery a person with a solution "adjust switches and dials until something happens" would be told to immediately vacate the place for safety reasons.

Yes, it would be nice if every child would learn these basics in school.

by pvorb 8y ago

Yes, it would be nice if every child would learn these basics in school.

eecc 8y ago

Yes, learning to be good consumers is way more important than basic skills such as maths, reading, writing and general critical thinking /s

krotton 8y ago
We do teach kids not to talk to strangers in the street and consider it quite important, I think. What's so much different about teaching them how not to get robbed on-line? It's not about being a good consumer, but about minding your own feet.

amygdyl 8y ago

I am expanding the idea that I posited above, to use the USPTO, for one canonical answer for every query concerning the identity of business services on the Internet... This involves providing both clear identity confirmation and the Favicon, to the browser, from USPTO managed servers, to visually green light to the user, the correct online correspondent. Schools are a excellent arbiter of the quality and integrity of known correspondents online. Nota bene, I say known correspondents, I am limiting this idea to whitelist sites and services only. Color borders surrounding each Favicon, can briefly flash. I want as a parent, to need only glance at the top left corner of the browser that my son is using. Kids don't want my criticism of what they find a engaging experience. My colleagues don't want my analytical views of their Economist newspaper reading, for that matter...But I think it would be great to see really one look response to a parent's concern. This animation can be enlivened by a cursor across the toolbar or similar gesture. "No worries, dad" is a great positive action to encourage. Because it's not about censorship, it's about learning what authenticity is. I imagine a nice modern pulsating heartbeat that's restful, for a positive identification of a trusted correspondent, and a fluttering and increasingly flashy, insistent nagging for a warning. I will add to my wishlist, the ability to sign a local whitelist sites database, complete with ticketing system, to which the kids are able to submit the arguments for, for example, sites and blogs that are not within the penumbral enclave of this identity umbrella.

friendzis 8y ago

Which would be called computer literacy. I find it both awesome and terrifying that people can successfully do jobs that require working on a computer and still be computer illiterates. Awesome in a sense that it illustrates how good computer interfaces actually are and terrifying in a sense that in any profession with heavy machinery a person with a solution "adjust switches and dials until something happens" would be told to immediately vacate the place for safety reasons.