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Mastodon brought me [[https://octodon.social/@alienghic/108106108530799589][this toot]] which links to [[https://curlybracket.net/2022/03/31/internet-kids.html][a very interesting
article]] where somebody was interviewing a few kids between ten and
eighteen about their perception and conception on the Internet.

Having smartphones and notebooks to their personal access (except one
nine-year-old), the kids do only mention consumption of music and
videos, games and of course following social media channels. I can not
find anything particular related to contributing original content to
the Internet.

The physical and logical structure of the Internet is unknown. The
role of mega-corporations is probably unknown. There are few questions
about surveillance and privacy violations but it seems to be something
the kids are not really aware of.

While this report is extremely interesting to me, *from my
perspective*, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vywf48Dhyns][the picture of the Internet of *most grown-ups is not
that different*]] compared to the picture of those kids interviewed.
Which is a really bad thing if you think about it.

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In my [[id:tags-pim][PIM]] lecture, I do have chapters about privacy and security
issues on the Internet, directed communication (email) and browsing
the WWW. My students do have varying backgrounds. When I teach in an
e-health environment (part-time continuing education), I probably get
a near-average set of grown-ups with respect of technological
background. They usually do not have any idea on how email works (what
parties and servers are involved when an email is sent) and they also
have only a very shallow knowledge on the things that corporations are
using to analyze our data and especially our online behavior.

From that perspective, we should be aware that *our education system
does not prepare for our current world* which is dominated by the
Internet. *We don't get consumers that are able to understand the
consequences of their actions.* We don't get people who know why we
are nagged about data consent all over the place. And most probably
this is the reason they do wrong decisions that harm their personal
data and freedom all the time. Regulatory consumer safe-guards are not
understood and [[https://www.i-dont-care-about-cookies.eu/][even mocked about]].

I don't think that this will change in the future because the media is
not covering those issues to raise the awareness of the people or even
get the attention of politicians who might be able to fix this issue
for future generations in every school system.

From my personal experience, although my PIM lecture should not cover
explanations on how the Internet works, how my privacy is violated by
corporations, and further topics, *students are very grateful to learn
about those things*. I'm wondering if I may be able to teach PIM for
people who already know the Internet basics from school on one fine
day.