What Does Internet Blocking Suggest to Students? | ISTE’s NEC...
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Saved by 21 people (0 private), first by anonymouse user on 2009-06-04
- Jeanberg on 2009-09-28 - Tags blocking , filtering , technology , necc09 , web2.0
- Ptaylorsjr on 2009-07-16 - Tags blocking , filtering , safety , web2.0 , ISTE
- Grace_kat on 2009-07-15 - Tags blocking , filtering , safety , necc09
- Jeff-milw on 2009-07-15 - Tags blocking , filtering , web2.0 , filter , technology , safety , necc09 , ISTE
- Simonra on 2009-07-08 - Tags filtering , blocking , web2.0 , iste , technology , filter , education , safety , internet_safety
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And I am arguing that ultimately – especially in a free society such as ours here in the US – those filters and blocks will produce more headaches than they will relieve in the short term.
Highlighted by jlpaluch
Whatever happened to the notion that teachers are capable of educating their students? Whatever happened to the notion that it was better for a student to learn about the dangers of life among peers in the safety of a classroom led by a trained professional teacher rather than in the darkness of a bedroom alone in the glow of the computer screen?
Highlighted by rooster67
Filtering and blocking only serve to produce distrust among our students. Filtering and blocking suggest one thing: you are not to be trusted.
Highlighted by jlpaluch
Filtering and blocking only serve to produce distrust among our students. Filtering and blocking suggest one thing: you are not to be trusted.
Highlighted by rooster67
For these pioneers, filtering and blocking has produced not merely an inconvenience to technological integration, but a block to teaching and learning.
Highlighted by jlpaluch
Filtering and blocking suggest that we don’t trust teachers.
Filtering and blocking suggest that we don’t trust students.
And from the point-of-view of students, filtering and blocking suggest that we are scared of what they might find out.
Highlighted by rooster67
So long as we continue to block access to the full range of tools available on the Internet, we will continue to do a disservice to our students and children. In the name of safety, we will produce a generation who views us with contempt.
Highlighted by jlpaluch


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on 2009-06-24 by rooster67