Will schools pro-actively model and teach the safe and appropriate use of these digital tools or will they reactively block them out and leave students and families to fend for themselves?
Blocking access to these tools in classrooms discourages student-centered learning, leading education technology consultant says
<b>How To Get Around Blocked Web Sites at School or Work: A Newbie Guide.</b>. Site provides information on how to get around blocked filters at school.
Oh no! Your mom just joined Facebook and what's even worse, she wants to be your friend. More and more people are finding themselves in this situation today and unsure of what to do. Friending mom and dad, the boss, or other work colleagues opens up the details of your private life for the whole world to see - and you might not be entirely comfortable with that. What's to be done?
Anne Collier [NetFamilyNews] reports on the Top 8 workarounds of kid virtual-world users - as relayed by Sharon Duke Estroff, who spent a couple of weeks on Club Penguin observing what her 8 year old son might experience there.
Here's how your students work around the system to unblock access to social networking sites at school.
This morning, a student sent me a link to an article describing the Internet crackdown occurring as official China has ‘prepared’ for the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre. “Looks like schools aren’t the only place Facebook is blocked,” read the text across my inbox.
I recently read an article with the sub-title “Facebook, other sites evolving faster than school rules can address” in which they discuss the ways schools use discipline, policies and guidelines to enforce what is acceptable and not acceptable when it comes to what student post on social media web sites.
I recently read an article with the sub-title “Facebook, other sites evolving faster than school rules can address” in which they discuss the ways schools use discipline, policies and guidelines to enforce what is acceptable and not acceptable when it comes to what student post on social media web sites.
Pupils given a greater degree of freedom to surf the internet at school are less vulnerable to online dangers in the long-term, inspectors say. "Managed" online systems were more successful than "locked" ones at safeguarding pupils' safety, they said. The inspectors' research was commissioned in response to a report by Dr Tanya Btron, which assessed the risks children faced when using the internet and video games.