The Application of Information Literacy with Association Rules for a Safe Cyber Environment System

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Abstract:The Internet is filled with opportunities for learning, communicating, and sharing information. It is a valuable resource for children and adults alike. Like any large community, however, the online world presents some underlying risks, especially for children. Parents need to be aware of some of the potential problems their children could encounter, and try to take adequate measures to protect their children from injury. In this paper, researcher can try to explore the relationship between parent's information literary, the confidence in child's ability of self-defense on the internet, and adequate measures to promote child using the internet more effectively. Association rules, a kind of data mining strategies, will be the main tool to manipulate the dataset. IntroductionOver the past few years, a fast growing number of households have added electronic games, home computers, and the Internet to other technologies -the telephone, radio, TV, and stereo system -that consume children's time. Surveys of parents suggested that they bought home computers and subscribed to Internet access to provide educational opportunities for their children, and to prepare them for the "information-age". Although they were increasingly concerned about the influence of the Web on their children and expressed disappointment over their children using the computer for activities such as playing games and browsing the Internet to download lyrics of popular songs and pictures of rock stars, they generally considered time wasted on the computer preferable to time wasted on TV, and even considered children without computers to be at a disadvantage. Nowadays, multimedia and interactive live video technologies innovate the argument of "information-age". While digital content become more and more complicated and diverged from normal educational purport or entertainment, parents don't regard home computer and Internet as only a toy of cheating time anymore. Now, some of these parents concern that how to regulate the rules to oversee children's behavior of Internet access and conduct them use these equipments correctly.In this paper, research will address the different associations, according to the level of information technology and knowledge these parents reach, between children's behavior or activity in using the internet and parents manner. In other words, this research focuses on how the different levels of information literate parents affect the strategies of regulating the rule and the role they play.