Upbringing children for responsible utilization of information and communication technologies

In the past, the upbringing was primarily function of parents and family. School, with its primary educational function, also has an important role in upbringing of children. However, from those aspects, 21st century brings new challenges and demands. The all-presence of ICT considerably affects social contacts and ways of communication, it changes how certain activities are done, how we inform, learn and entertain ourselves. Children grow up surrounded by ICTs and often they quickly and uncritically accept them. For that reason, parents and information science teachers have the obligation to develop forms of conducts, attitudes and system of values for children's (co)existence in digital world, so the ICT can be used for personal development without violation of established and newly-developed codes of conducts, without vitiation to others or themselves. This paper researches exactly those parents' and information science teachers' upbringing impacts from the aspects of ICT. Our research confirmed that there is a significant difference between parents' and information science teachers' upbringing impacts on children, from the ICT point of view.