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DANA Tate (from left), Maria Hawk, Sarah Martiniuk
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Computers are fun — and the tuture

Dana Murenbeefd and Christine Yang
Contributing Writers

THE biggest thing in computers
today is the Internet.

All the schools in British Columbia
today are hooking up to the P.L.N.
(Province Learning Network), putting
kids online to cool sites and ¢-mail.

The Internet has become an important
and fun tool in today’s schools for meeting
new people, and finding out what's going
on in the world. The kids in our class agree
that the Internet is a cool place to fearn,
play games, do quizzes, research things for
school, get information abour things we

enioy, e-mail friends, get pen pal
hang out in millions of other cool

“The Internet is fund to explore,” says
Kelly Quigley.

“You can’t get bored because there
always something interesting to look
through,” said Sara Sharifnejad.

Some parents are concerned about
their children going into inappropriate
sites on the Internet. There are inappro-
priate sites on the Internet, but there are
ways to avoid them.

One way is that the school’s computers
have a special program that won’t let kids
go into most bad sites. Of course, there
are accidents where kids accidenzally run
into them. Another way is to search for a

type of site by using a search site rather
than trying to type in an address. This way
you kaw what you're gecting yourself
inte.

“I don’t approve of bad sites anymore
than Vib lec my kids see inappropriate
mor ciook through bad magazines or
Video games,” says Estha Murenbdeeld.

“You have to trust sour kids that they
won't purposely go on bad sites,” says
Gerry Murenbecld.

Think of alf the jobs that involve com-
puters now! Even more jobs will probably
involve computers when our generation
starts working for money.

Computers ace a huge step in technol-
ogy that can’t go unnoticed,

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