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  an editorial on how student know how to go right around a blocked site at school while teachers can't and so the blocks hurt teachers more

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  • • Under the Children's Internet Protection Act of 2000, any school or library that uses federal funds to buy computers is required to install Internet filters.
    • Filters prevent a great majority of teachers from gaining access to valuable online teaching tools and multimedia content
    • Yet while teachers have their hands tied, students can easily wriggle into MySpace
    • The best strategy for protecting students online is educating them about Internet citizenship and safety
    • The other effective strategy for protecting youths online is supervision, both high-tech and old-fashioned.
    • The millions of stimulus dollars to be spent on modernizing classrooms won't transform learning if students can't participate in the online forums that are reshaping the economy, journalism, government and society.
    • Requiring more filtering would throw more resources at a failed approach.
    • Another emerging and misguided strategy is requiring certain Web sites, such as social networks, to use age verification softwar
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  Web site filters in schools have had tremendous success in keeping one group of people from freely searching online. Unfortunately, that group is teachers.

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  Under the Children's Internet Protection Act of 2000, any school or library that uses federal funds to buy computers is required to install Internet filters. Such legislation may score political points, but it isn't safeguarding students from online hazards. More often, filters hamstring teachers' efforts to develop lessons that effectively prepare students for 21st-century challenges.

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  Web site filters in schools have had tremendous success in keeping one group of people from freely searching online. Unfortunately, that group is teachers.

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  • Walk the halls of a public school, and students will readily share tips for evading filters, some of which would be good work-arounds for the Great Firewall of China.

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      Tod Baker on 2009-07-13

      Although I have been impressed with the effectiveness of the GFW lately.
  • The best strategy for protecting students online is educating them about Internet citizenship and safety.

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      Tod Baker on 2009-07-13

      Of course. Students with street smarts can be the same good people online.
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  • • Teachers whose classes use computers need to patrol their classrooms to observe student screens.

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        Tod Baker on 2009-07-13

        Might feel intrusive at first, but it's just what we would do if we were on an excursion with our students -- protect them.
    • The millions of stimulus dollars to be spent on modernizing classrooms won't transform learning if students can't participate in the online forums that are reshaping the economy, journalism, government and society.
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  Peggy George

  Web site filters in schools have had tremendous success in keeping one group of people from freely searching online. Unfortunately, that group is teachers. Content filters are knee-high fences around the Internet: They may trip up older folks, but teens leap right over. Our students are at risk of making bad decisions online, and our knee-high fences won't help. Filters stifle teaching innovations and don't effectively keep students safe. The best strategy for protecting students online is educating them about Internet citizenship and safety. The other effective strategy for protecting youths online is supervision, both high-tech and old-fashioned.
  
  

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  Content filters are knee-high fences around the Internet: They may trip up older folks, but teens leap right over. Walk the halls of a public school, and students will readily share tips for evading filters, some of which would be good work-arounds for the Great Firewall of China

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  Our students are at risk of making bad decisions online, and our knee-high fences won't help. Filters stifle teaching innovations and don't effectively keep students safe. If you don't believe me, I can refer you to 187,000 kids who will set you straight.

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  Great article about school filters. Read it and pass it along to your administration, maybe. But certainly, discuss it with them.

  • The millions of stimulus dollars to be spent on modernizing classrooms won't transform learning if students can't participate in the online forums that are reshaping the economy, journalism, government and society. If government has any helpful role to play in making school Web surfing safer, it should fund the development of online safety curricula and research into effective supervision software and strategies. Requiring more filtering would throw more resources at a failed approach. Another emerging and misguided strategy is requiring certain Web sites, such as social networks, to use age verification software; evading these new obstacles won't be much harder than evading filters.
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  Op-ed article on need to rethink how we facilitate internet use in schools.

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  • How to access Facebook from school
  • any school or library that uses federal funds to buy computers is required to install Internet filters
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  • • More often, filters hamstring teachers' efforts to develop lessons that effectively prepare students for 21st-century challenges
    • Many teachers who begin experimenting with teaching strategies that use emerging Web technologies get frustrated and give up when filters block their plans.
    • can't connect with other classrooms through social networks, and can't use blogs or wikis to create collaborative learning environments.
    • The best strategy for protecting students online is educating them about Internet citizenship and safety
    • Teachers whose classes use computers need to patrol their classrooms to observe student screens.
    • The millions of stimulus dollars to be spent on modernizing classrooms won't transform learning if students can't participate in the online forums that are reshaping the economy, journalism, government and society. If government has any helpful role to play in making school Web surfing safer, it should fund the development of online safety curricula and research into effective supervision software and strategies.
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  The best strategy for protecting students online is educating them about Internet citizenship and safety. Young people need to learn about safeguarding their personal information, handling cyber-bullying, reporting and ignoring advances from strangers, avoiding online scams, and being courteous in online communication. They must understand the dangers and consequences of making details of their private lives available to the public. This education needs to happen at home as well as in homerooms, health classes, school assemblies, technology classes and guidance counseling.

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  Lesley Reilly

  The Internet is an integral and growing part of our lives and, to prepare our children for the future, schools must help students wisely and safely use the Web.

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  Chris Shearer

  Kind of a weak article, but good in that it is in the Washington Post. Maybe this will generate some much needed discussions, focusing more on educating, then blocking.
  
  

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  Nancy Blair

  Discusses the futility of firewalls and how they hamstring teachers but not students; encourages teaching digital citizenship and responsibility.

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  Alternatives to firewalls / filters in schools.

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  • The best strategy for protecting students online is educating them about Internet citizenship and safety. Young people need to learn about safeguarding their personal information, handling cyber-bullying, reporting and ignoring advances from strangers, avoiding online scams, and being courteous in online communication. They must understand the dangers and consequences of making details of their private lives available to the public. This education needs to happen at home as well as in homerooms, health classes, school assemblies, technology classes and guidance counseling.
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  In Schools, a Firewall That Works Too Well
  By Justin Reich
  Saturday, July 11, 2009
  
  Web site filters in schools have had tremendous success in keeping one group of people from freely searching online. Unfortunately, that group is teachers.

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  Web site filters in schools have had tremendous success in keeping one group of people from freely searching online. Unfortunately, that group is teachers.

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  Tod Baker on 2009-07-13
  Although I have been impressed with the effectiveness of the GFW lately.
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  Tod Baker on 2009-07-13
  Of course. Students with street smarts can be the same good people online.
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  Tod Baker on 2009-07-13
  Might feel intrusive at first, but it's just what we would do if we were on an excursion with our students -- protect them.

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