Comments on: New Hampshire teachers say filtering hampers teaching

By: sylvia martinez

sylvia martinez — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 05:23:58 +0000

great twist, Sean!

By: Sean Nash

Sean Nash — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 22:26:39 +0000

I agree. Filtering IS the answer.

However… not filtering done by all-knowing others in a closet far removed. I’m talking about filtering done by students in the presence of perhaps more-knowing adults shepherding them through the information landscapes of 2010 and beyond.

I love filtering. I teach filtering. I want to help build thousands of good, human filters of what we know and what we produce.

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By: Chris Fritz

Chris Fritz — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:25:56 +0000

Ha, not surprising that a filtering company concludes that we need better filtering. It’s not that simple, unfortunately. Some of the greatest sites for education, like YouTube, can also be used for self-distraction. Is their solution going through every video on YouTube and blocking the ones that are deemed more likely to be a distraction than an educational tool? It’s ridiculous.

I think a major problem is most teachers never learned how to deal with the implications of an open Internet. They don’t know how to teach students to use the web responsibly. Like it or not though, that’s part of the world and something we all have to deal with now. Filtering isn’t to protect students, it’s to protect teachers from having to learn a new kind of classroom management.

I’m sure there have got to be some great resources for managing a classroom with laptops or in a lab. It sounds like the kind of thing you might have bookmarked, Sylvia. Got any resources for us? I’ll be keeping an eye out.