Don't Filter Out Responsibility : June 2008 : THE Journal - The Diigo Meta page

• 14 Feb 10
  

  Craig Cunningham

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• 12 Jun 09
  

  Ben W

  Yet another article. This one uses buzzwords like "21st century learning" which admins might like.

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• 08 Sep 08
  

  nnps60

  Finnish web filter

• 22 Jun 08
  

  kim tufts

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• 17 Jun 08
  

  Rafael Ribas

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  • Finland, where she found that educators have a different  approach to ensuring responsible internet use: They don't enforce it, they  teach it-- and because they teach it, they don't have to enforce it.
  • Teaching kids to govern themselves is what we ought to be doing, not having  their visits to the school library or computer lab chaperoned by web filters.
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  Anne Bubnic

  The use of web filters runs counter to 21st century learning. Great editorial from THE JOURNAL (Jun 08) on putting the filter in student heads by teaching them responsibility rather than locking them out of sites with filters.

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  • The use of web filters runs counter to 21st-century learning.
  • They don't enforce it, they  teach it-- and because they teach it, they don't have to enforce it. According to  Walker, most computers in Finnish schools don't have web filters. As she said,  "Over there, thanks to solid teaching, the filters are in the students' heads."
  • Using filters  to blockade portions of the internet does the reverse of that.  It takes responsibility off the students, and their accountability  along with i
  • You could say we're having technology  eat its young, which is no way to run a new century.

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