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Google Teams with 'Highlights', Shows How Goofus and Gallant Use the Internet
Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: Last month there was a special Google-funded edition of Highlights for Children, the 77-year-old magazine targetting children between the ages of 6 and 12. This edition was based on Google's "Be Internet Awesome" curriculum, and 1.25 million copies of the pr...
This edition was based on Google's"Be Internet Awesome" curriculum, and 1.25 million copies of the print magazine were distributed to children, schools, and other organizations. (In one picture it looks like they're condemning Goofus for not intervening in a flame war between two other people — "Be Kind!") Will 6- to 12-year-old children start demanding that their parents buy them their own laptop now — since even Goofus and Gallant already have them?
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