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Web filtering in schools: unnecessary or necessary evil?
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Are we really protecting students or simply making it inconvenient for them to access the web?
What about the teachers? Should they be blocked as well?
There has been a lot of discussion by educational technology folks in the blogosphere about web filtering in schools. I came across a post at the excellent Dangerously Irrelevant [...]
FETC Thoughts - Day 1
After a long day of “conferencing,” here are my thoughts after Day 1 of FETC:
- Jeff Corwin seems like a pretty cool guy. Sure, we all know him from his many TV appearances and television shows, after hearing him deliver the keynote address, I really like the guy. Although he did not speak too much [...]
Don’t put Windows Vista and Office 2007 in classrooms
The British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (Becta), the organisation that implements government educational technology policy, has claimed Windows Vista and Office 2007 should not be deployed in schools because of potential compatibility issues with earlier versions of Microsoft’s software, as well as software produced by Microsoft’s rivals.
Although Becta is the organization that oversees tech [...]
The Classroom of the Future is now…
A little while back, I wrote about the classroom of the future and linked to a YouTube video about that so-called classroom of the future. It turns out that the classroom portrayed in that video wasn’t very “futuristic” at all. Computer World has a great article entitled “The most wired school in America.” The article [...]
Generation Y biggest user of U.S. libraries, survey finds
Computer World has an interesting article about Generation Y (adults 18-30) that have visited public libraries in the US in 2007. According to the article, “Sixty-two percent of Gen Y respondents said they visited a public library in the past year.” However, they weren’t there for the books. Leigh Estabrook, a professor emerita at the [...]
