TS+Internet+HF

=Information Technology High School= =Hector Flores= =Internet= =Tech & Society= =Mr. Beder=

4/11/07

The [|pathfinder] that I like best is **[|Weather Disasters]**.Three things that I discovered is that there are different kinds of weather disasters. Some of them are hurricanes, tsumamis, weather, and diseases. Another thing that I discovered is that el niño is a change in the ocean-atmospheric system that affects the world. I also learned that lightning strikes more than 1,000 times every second around the world. Two things that I found interesting is that more than 80 people die because of tornadoes. Another thing that I find interesting is that no one knows how a tornado forms or how it looks from the inside.One question that I still have about the pathfinders is that are there more different kinds of pathfinders?

4/13/07

[|SIRS] [|Librarian's Index to the Internet] [|Internet Public Library] [|HomeworkNYC]

=__Keywords__=

access affect download filter internet safety security school users uses youths

=**__Questions__**=

How do young people use the internet? How do schools use the internet? How does the internet affect youths? How are schools protecting the youths from going to websites that they aren't suppose to look? Why do schools block websites like myspace?

4/13/07
 * Title:** [|Internet Is Useful but Not Changing Lives, Survey Shows]
 * Source:** Washington File
 * Author:**
 * Publication Date:** Aug. 17, 2004
 * Page Number:** n.p.
 * Database:** SIRS Government Reporter

1) I discovered that a lot of people think that the internet isn't changing daily lives. 2) Some people say that they would be nothing without the internet. 3) The internet is second in home traditions.

1) I learned that the internet has made a difference in a few years since it was first announced. 2) Also people use the internet for communicating, searching, downloading and other things that they can't do offline.

1) One question that I still have is that why do people think that the internet doesn't change daily lives?


 * Title:** [|Computer and Internet Use by Students in 2003--Highlights]
 * Source:** Computer and Internet Use by Students in 2003
 * Author:** Matthew DeBell and Chris Chapman
 * Publication Date:** Sept. 2006
 * Page Number:** iii-vi
 * Database:** SIRS Government Reporter

1) I discovered that the internet is used by children that have 3 years. 2) About 91% of children use computers and about 59% of those children use the internet. 3) More students that go to private school have computers than those who go to private schools.

1) One thing that I learned was that 53 million youths use the internet everyday. 2) I also learned that before more boys used the computer than girls.

1) One question that I still have is that what do the children that have 5 years or less do in the internet?


 * Title:** [|Internet Access in U.S. Public Schools and Classrooms...Highlights]
 * Source:** Internet Access in U.S. Public Schools and Classrooms: 1994-2005
 * Author:** John Wells and others
 * Publication Date:** Nov. 2006
 * Page Number:** 1-12
 * Database:** SIRS Government Reporter

1) I discovered that the types of internet connections used by public schools and the speed at which computers are connected to the uses of the internet have changed over the years. 2) In 2005, 19% of public schools provided hand-held computers to students or teachers. 3) There are more students using the computer than there were 9 years ago.

1) One thing that I found interesting is that little children that are like 3 years old use the internet. 2) In 2002 and 2003, some schools were asked a question about providing hand-held computers to students or teachers.

1) One question that I still have is that does the department of education plan to give students hand-held computers?


 * Title:** [|Access to the Internet: Is It a Right or a Privilege?]
 * Source:** Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
 * Author:** John Reinan
 * Publication Date:** May 28, 2006
 * Page Number:** A1+
 * Database:** SIRS Researcher

1) One thing that I discovered is that some companies want to limit the number of websites that we visit everyday. 2) Broadband Internet providers say they don't want to restrict access to the Web, they want to offer consumers more choices. 3) The internet started 30 years ago.

1) The one who will start the internet limit will need some money just to do that. 2) The Supreme Court was the one who started that idea of limiting access to the internet.

1) The only question that I have is what do the people think about limiting the access to the internet?


 * Title:** [|Cyber Insecurity]
 * Source:** Consumer Reports Vol. 71, No. 9
 * Author:**
 * Publication Date:** Sept. 2006
 * Page Number:** 20-26
 * Database:** SIRS Researcher

1) I discovered that 39% of the people that have internet reported an infection in the past two years. Of those, 34% had to reformat their hard drives, 16% permanently lost important data, and 8% had to replace hardware. 2) You should have 2 antispyware programs installed on your computer, a free one and one that you paid for just in case one of them doesn't detect a spyware program. 3) One reason why computers get spyware or viruses on their computer is that children accidentally go to websites that have viruses or spyware.

1) I learned that there are programs that could record all the movements that you make on the computer and they can be easily found with a simple search. 2) The companies like Microsoft are making computers that have software that eliminate spyware installed in them.

1) One question that I have is that what are the reasons that the people have to making viruses.


 * Title:** [|Decoding MySpace]
 * Source:** U.S. News & World Report Vol. 141, No. 10
 * Author:** Michelle Andrews
 * Publication Date:** Sept. 18, 2006
 * Page Number:** 46+
 * Database:** SIRS Researcher

1) I discovered that there are sexual predators around the internet that go to myspace and thats why schools block this site. 2) There are 230,000 new members everyday. 3) Myspace was before only for musicians and artist.

1) Most of the teenagers that go to the internet to do hw or something else they go check to see if they have any new messages or comments. 2)Myspace is the most popular place where teens go when they go to the internet.

1) A question that I have is that are there other reasons why schools block myspace?


 * Title:** [|Cyber-Bullying Increasing, Changing Adolescent Pecking Order]
 * Source:** Kansas City Star (Kansas City, MO)
 * Author:** Karen Uhlenhuth
 * Publication Date:** Sept. 16, 2006
 * Page Number:** n.p.
 * Database:** SIRS Researcher

1) I discovered that 40% of the teens surveyed said they had been "disrespected". 2) About 28% of the adolescent respondents who said they had been bullied online also said they did not know the perpetrator. 3) Also about 13% said they felt threatened by their online exchange.

1) One thing that I learned is that the government is trying to figure out how to find the ones who send anonymous e- mails. 2) The ones that send anonymous e-mails most of the time remain anonymous.

1) one question that I still have is that how are the websites like myspace are reacting to this Cyber bullying?

1) I discovered that in this survey it revealed that many youth are victims of online sexual solicitations. 2) About 8 of the surveyed online harrasments are violent images. 3)Many young people are being subjected to dangerous and inappropriate experiences on the Internet
 * Title:** [|Highlights of the Youth Internet Safety Survey]
 * Source:** OJJDP FACT SHEET
 * Author:** David Finkelhor and others
 * Publication Date:** March 2001
 * Page Number:** n.p.
 * Database:** SIRS Government Reporter

1) I learned that most of the families with youth who used the Internet regularly did not use filtering or blocking software. 2) I also learned that 67% of the incidents, youth were at home when the unwanted exposure occurred, 5%, were at school, 13%, were at someone else's house and 3%, were at a library.

1) One question that I still have is that do all of these images get blocked by filters?

4/18/07

Title: [|Censorship or common sense?] Author: URL:[| http://sks.sirs.com/cgi-bin/hst-site-display?id=SINFOTECH-0-7672&url=http://whyfiles.org/181internet_filter/index.html]

1) I discovered that libraries could lose federal funding for computers and Internet connections if they don't filter sites that children shouldn't see. 2) In libraries there are a lot of people who complain that they can't go to a site because of the filter. 3) You have to be 16 years or older so you can ask a librarian to shut off the filters.

1) Something that I learned was that in the First Amendment, it says "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise there of..." that means that we have the right to go wherever we want and peacefully. 2) I also learned that in 2002, 76.9% of U.S. schools were using filters.

1) One question that I still have is if all the schools in the US are using filters?

Title: [|Teens and Technology: Youth Are Leading the Transition to a Fully Wired and Mobile Nation] Author: Carter Cosgrove URL: http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/162/report_display.asp

1) I discovered that the number of teenagers using the internet has grown 24% in the past four years. 2) I also discovered that teens use the internet for games, music, e-mail, IM, etc. 3) One last thing that I discovered was that teenagers use the internet and their cell phones everyday.

1) I learned that 87% people that are between the ages of 12 and 17 are online everyday. 2) The variety of technologies that teens use like communication, research, and entertainment desires has grown.

1) One question that I still have is that how much more will the number of teenagers using the internet grow?

4/19/07

Subject headings

[|Computers and children] [|Computers, Access] [|Computers, Educational use] [|Internet, Access control] [|Internet and youth] [|Students, Statistics]

4/19/07

Experts and Organizations

American Institutes for Research American Library Association Anti-Phishing Working Group AOL Apple AT&T - telephone company Center for Democracy and Technology Comcast Consumer Reports National Research Center Council on Foreign Relations Crimes against Children Research Center Department of Justice EarthLink Education Statistics Services Institute eHarmony Entertainment Industry Federal Trade Commission Grokster Ltd. Intermix Media Internet Freedom Preservation Act Kazaa Kodak Microsoft MSN Myspace National Center for Education Statistics National Center for Missing and Exploited Children National Network to End Domestic Violence Netflix NetZero Pew Internet Project Verizon Xanga

4/20/07

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 * Title:** [|Court Ruling May Not Hinder Music Theft]
 * Author:** Ted Bridis
 * Source:** Independent-Mail (Anderson, SC)
 * Publication Date:** March 30, 2005
 * Page Number(s):** n.p.
 * Database:** SIRS Discoverer

1) I discovered that there are more then a million people that are downloading illegal music. 2) There are more than 10 million computers that are downloading free music everyday. 3) Lawers say that it won't be easy to get rid of all the computer links that are used to download free music.

1) I learned that people use copying machines, videocassette recorders and MP3 music players to make illegal copies of music, videos, programs, digital files, etc. 2) The entertainment industry has made poor-quality copies of songs, falsely named files, and other tactics, in order to frustrate people who download free music.

1) One question that I still have is that will the entertainment industry completely stop the illegal downloadings?

4/24/07


 * Introduction**

How does the internet affect young people? This is a question that has many answers. I chose this topic because I thought that there might be a lot of people who might be interested in the internet and how some people use it. Some things that I found while making this pathfinder is that there are about 53 million youths that use the internet everyday and that most of them use the internet for sending e-mails, IM, and communicating. Something caught my attention while I was making this pathfinder. I found out that the Supreme Court wants to limit the number of websites that we visit everyday. I disagree and so do some companies like AT&T and Verizon. There are some other interesting topics that can interest you while you look at this pathfinder and you can find more information on the internet by going to the Internet Group if you don't find what you are looking for.