We used the results of the interviews and focus groups to inform the development of a survey that was administered to 5,436 students in grades 4-11 in all 10 provinces and 3 territories in 2013. [...] At the same time, teachers need to recognize the fact that students are turning to Wikipedia and teach them the specific authentication habits and skills they need to authenticate each article they want to use as a source. [...] What can be seen as one of the pieces of good news from our Phase III data is that the vast majority of students we surveyed are aware of the potential risks of networked communication and have a number of strategies to deal with the problems they encounter. [...] Focus who’ll say ‘I’m being bullied’ group participants indicated that it was difficult for because there’s like, the them to go to a teacher they trusted; and police are going to come and principals are often bound by zero-tolerance they’ll take over” policies that may force them to take actions that 13-14 year old in Ottawa are out of proportion to the severity of the incident. [...] However, the fact that the majority of both boys and girls continue to mistakenly believe that the presence of a privacy policy means the owner of the website will not share their information with others indicates that we still have a long way to go to help both boys and girls understand the networked environment.
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