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Filter Fun
Filed Under (Uncategorized) by jamielpeters on 30-09-2008
I just read a recent blog entry written by Will Richardson. Though I don’t always agree with Will, I do think he hit this on the head! We can’t filter everything our students see in real life, so why filter everything on the web? Even if we do filter for students, why are some schools filtering content for their staff members? Aren’t these the same people that we hire to put in charge of educating our children?
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October 1st, 2008 at 9:19 am
I also agree with Will’s blog. I do agree with it, but there needs to be a change in thinking in order for things to open up. I can’t help but think about the substitute teacher that got into major trouble due to mistakeningly having a prono site come up in front of kids. If I remember the screen was turned away from the kids,the school filtering system wasn’t working, and there were several other factors that were out of her control. It was a while ago when I read about it, but I think she lost her job and a lawsuit was being filed against her. When I read about those things happening to teachers who are trying to use educational resources from the net, I wonder why would anyone want to go through what that women has had to endure. Change is needed in many places and on many different levels.
November 12th, 2008 at 10:57 am
Jamie, I agree with you. We as teachers are being asked to include lots of interactive and technology based lessons as we teach however, some of the websites where we find the information that is most useful to our lessons maybe blocked. I understand the reasons for blocking student accounts from having full access to all the internet has to offer, but I think teachers should have much more freedom to search the internet.