Practice makes perfect is, in fact incorrect. Correct version is Practice makes permanent. The more you practice doing it the same way the harder it will be to change that way. Even if the way is wrong.

Excellent point Gypsy.

so that now makes "permanent" the enemy of good :-)

@Ben.i I had a look at cseducators.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic I notice that it lists computer-science, software-engineering. But in UK, at school, we have computer-science, information-technology, and digital-literacy. As all UK school educators of computing will teach all of these, I think they should all be on topic. I can see that in other places they may be all under same name.

@ctrl-alt-delor What is meant by digital literacy?

VERY early on, in one of our very first metas, there was a discussion about whether web browsing safely would be on-topic, and it was decided that it wouldn't be. (I was never convinced that that was the right decision)

I wanted to define our scope as broadly as we reasonably could, both to invite additional expertise, and to prevent such a narrowing that we would be in danger of running dry

I agree.

There are very real dangers out there.

Web browsing safely requires digital literacy :P

@skullpatrol The relevant question was now whether it was important, but whether how to teach digital safety (think grades 1-5) should be on-topic on a computer science educator's site.

I thought that it should be, but the large majority of others thought that it shouldn't, and I lost that battle.

Core to my argument is that it is listed in the low grades on published computer-science curricula, meaning that it was relevant to the vocation of "teacher of computer science", and also that there would therefore be a crossover of expertise.

Yup, the first step is to clearly define what we mean by "the dangers" on the internet to young users.

and how young etc.

Parents have to be willing to step up to the plate.

Welcome back, @ncmathsadist! Do you have any ideas for cseducators.stackexchange.com/questions/4193/… ?

It gets to be a thorny issue when you start to talk about kids that young...

Agreed. The rules used to be "never meet someone from online", but that clearly isn't the rule of society any more.

...I applaud your efforts :-)

Yup, times are a changing.