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Children on the Internet

The Internet today is a part of kids' natural environment. Therefore, Most children have access to the Internet at school and/or at home. The number of Internet users worldwide is expected to grow to 300 million

First of all, study showed that children find the Internet easy to use, and like to use it for fun, games, e-mail, chat and instant messaging. Two-thirds of the children think that it helps them with their learning, and one-third would like to use it for lessons if they were home sick from school. Next, Children also go online for learning activities that are not connected directly with school. The absence of information filters, such as editors and peer reviewing, on the Internet presents a challenge to students, who are using the web to find information for their assignments. Children cannot properly estimate the validity of the information they find on the web. Finally, Web design for children builds upon general principles of good web design. Sometimes tradeoffs are necessary, for example, web sites for preschoolers should be almost purely graphical and include audio alternatives for text. At the same time these children will switch to some other activity if nothing happens on the computer screen.

In conclusion, A web site for children will be truly useful only when the target age group, task and the site's content are determined before the design process begins. Involving children into design process and evaluation of the site might be a key to success.