{"id":7437,"date":"2015-10-29T09:47:02","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T13:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/?p=7437"},"modified":"2022-04-22T13:00:23","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T17:00:23","slug":"school-approaches-to-filtering-internet-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/school-approaches-to-filtering-internet-content\/","title":{"rendered":"To lock or not to lock"},"content":{"rendered":"

School approaches to filtering internet content<\/h1>\n

\"school<\/a>As social media,Youtube, and gaming become more educationally relevant, how do we leverage their educational potential while keeping student data safe and teaching them digital citizenship?<\/span><\/p>\n

Lock it down!<\/span><\/strong> “We need to keep everyone safe.”<\/p>\n

Open it up!<\/span><\/strong> “It’s how the real world operates.”<\/p>\n

I’ve heard strong arguments for both sides of the coin and have seen successes and challenges in both cases.<\/p>\n

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For example, in one school the filtering was so widespread, the IT department spent a significant amount of time working though requests to unblock sites and teachers were frustrated because students were trying research and to class came to a standstill.<\/p>\n

Along those lines, in another example, the devices issues by a school were so locked down, students just preferred and forgo the headache and used their phones. Conversely, even with the best firewalls and filtering, students can find aways around anything to access what they want.<\/p>\n

How do we determine the appropriate balance?<\/h2>\n