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 [...]
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 [...]
Censorship: Where will it end & is it really necessary?
I am very troubled by the news that the Australian government is going to force ISPs to censor what their users can see on the Internet. They claim it is an effort to keep kids from seeing things they shouldn’t see. Techdirt has a post explaining how ridiculous this whole thing is.
Certainly, I understand and [...]
