Quoted from http://www.isteconnects.org/2009/06/04/what-does-internet-blocking-suggest-to-students/:
What Does Internet Blocking Suggest to Students? | ISTE’s NECC09 Blog
Filtering and blocking only serve to produce distrust among our students. Filtering and blocking suggest one thing: you are not to be trusted.
I really agree with this article. I’ve ALWAYS resented the blocking that our district has applied as it doesn’t work well enough. I was in the library the other day and several students were playing games. I don’t understand why Twitter is blocked but these games are not.
Besides the kids are really good at using proxy sites.
I do believe that the library probably should have blocking software as the librians are not watching the students, but the classroom computers should not be blocked.
I perfectly good at keeping my students busy enough that they don’t have time to get into trouble on the internet.
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