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BOX 10.6 | Youth, Pornography, and the Internet | Dick Thornburgh and Herbert S. Lin, Editors | Committee to Study Tools and Strategies for Protecting Kids from Pornography and Their Applicability to Other Inappropriate Internet Content | Computer Science and Telecommunications Board | National Research Council


Box 10.6
An Example of a Library Offering for Internet Safety Education


The Chicago Public Library's home page for kids and teens is designed to be a safe portal to the Web. In addition to child-appropriate resources such as the Teen Edition, Homework Help, Good Reads and Great Books, and resources for parents, teachers, and youth librarians, it also contains an interactive quiz that poses one question at a time that can be answered with a yes or no button that calls up the correct response as well as feedback about the question. For example, the second question in the quiz is, If I see stuff on the Internet that makes me uncomfortable should I keep it a secret? Depending on your answer you get either a bouncing star graphic if you answer correctly or a "Danger" sign if you answer incorrectly. Both answers are accompanied by the following text: "If you are at home, tell your parents right away if you come across any information that makes you feel uncomfortable. If you are at the public library, tell a librarian and then leave that page right away."



SOURCE: See <www.chipublib.org/008subject/003cya/sign/sign.html>.




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