INTERNET SAFETY AND ATTITUDE OF STUDENTS WORKING ON A COMPUTER IN LOWER SECONDARY SCHOOLS

The use of the Internet and students addiction of Internet has become very actual and inevitable issue, thus the interest in protection of the students and gaining knowledge about safety use of Internet are indispensable. The aim of this paper is to inform and raise children's/students awareness of Internet safety and the potential risks they may be exposed to while using the Internet; then to give insight of the students' behavior and their success at school, according to the perception of the students themselves and their parents, as well as to show their opinions regarding the frequency of Internet use while working with a computer. Population consists of students of lower secondary schools in the municipality of Pristina, bearing in mind that students of this age spend a lot of time on the computer using the Internet, that can be harmful for the physical development at their age. The instrument that is used for data collection is questionnaire, and instruction guide is distributed on how students of this generation should access the Internet, how they should protect themselves from the Internet, the way they use the computer and the time they should spend on the Internet. The methods for processing the data and gaining scientifically based conclusions were analysis, comparison and synthesis. The results in this paper show that students generally do not have enough knowledge about the safety risks of the Internet use and have underestimated the time they spend on the Internet. The vast majority of them think that sitting in front of the computer has no, or has little effect on their physical problems during their physical development.