Kids & Social Media

When I was a kid, the only IT education offered to the younger generation was a basic IT class once a week that was used to train people's MS office skills. However, in this day and age so much more needs to be done! With so many aspects of digital and social media, surely it is essential that kids should be taught how to use each aspect safely and to its full potential in order instil some interest early on life.

I was pleased to see Mashable's (Mashable.com) attempt at trying to fund just that! Mashable is helping to raise funds in order to help schools buy the correct tools to educate the importance of social media. From digital cameras to video cameras to netbooks, kids on the east coast of America will benefit from being media-literate from an early age.

I can't help but hope that a fund-raiser of this kind will soon hit the UK. This will not only improve the talent coming through to the Social Media/ Digital industry, but nearly every industry. There would be less and less badly designed websites, communication techniques would grow hugely and the amount of independent material for the entertainment and art industries would again go through the roof.

I am a huge fan of what Mashable and anybody else involved with the scheme is doing and with any hope the idea will catch on in the UK.

Mashable: Help kids get into social media - http://mashable.com/2009/09/30/donors-choose-start/#disqus_thread