Straight from the DOE: Dispelling Myths About Blocked Sites | MindShift - 31 views
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DON PASSENANT on 08 Sep 13This is great info to use when trying to convince districts to ease up on blocks.
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hese are technology tools that are put in place to filter sites that are inappropriate. These filters are getting better and better.
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What we have had is what I consider brute force technologies that shut down wide swaths of the Internet, like all of YouTube, for example. Or they may shut down anything that has anything to do with social media, or anything that is a game.
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How do we educate this generation of young people to be safe online, to be secure online, to protect their personal information, to understand privacy, and how that all plays out when they’re in an online space.
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re schools or teachers circumventing rules if they show YouTube videos or other blocked sites to students?
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If the technology fails us and filters something appropriate and useful, and if teachers in their professional judgment think it’s appropriate, they should be able to show it. Teachers need to impose their professional judgment on materials that are available to their students.