Topic 2 - Exeercise 2.4

Dick Hardt raises a good point when he asks the question, “Who is the Dick on your site”? This point is something that we all should be aware of, and from an educational point of view something that teachers should consider before they allow children access to online communities. Hardt mentions such terms as phishing which is an email sent with the purpose of “scamming” the recipient into believing the course is legitimate. Pharming is another term used by Hardt which is what hackers do to redirect users to bogus websites. Privacy invasion and identity theft (pretending to be someone else) are two other terms that Hardt mentions in his talk. The solutions Hardt offers to overcoming these problems seem satisfactory but I wonder how beneficial they would be in an early primary classroom setting?