Monday, May 18, 2009

Re: Technology as it relates to iphone/itouch

Just to play devil's advocate, why not? How much staff time and money is spent maintaining and updating filters? How much student time is spent bypassing these filters?

What if we made an explicit choice to eliminate the cat and mouse game of filtering, and made an equally explicit choice to dedicate the resources saved on filtering to training, education, and outreach?

Filtering does not deliver any long-term educational outcome. Training and outreach, done well, can be incredible assets to a school's existing curriculum.

Cheers,

Bill


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Do we plan to do away with the LAN filters?

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