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What Your Kids Are Really Doing Online

What Your Kids Are Really Doing Online 

by Michael Levin
The Internet affords children endless opportunities to get into serious trouble, downloading what they shouldn’t download, looking at what they shouldn’t be looking at, and getting ideas about what they shouldn’t be getting ideas about.
But the good news is that if your kids are like mine, they may be doing some or all of those things… but there’s another use for the Internet that’s attracting their time and attention.
It’s called teaching.
That’s right — your kids are most likely teaching other kids how to do things that interest them. The online world, especially YouTube, has turned into an academy without walls, entrance fees or final exams. The