What Does Internet Blocking Suggest to Students?

Filtering and blocking suggest that we don’t trust teachers. Filtering and blocking suggest that we don’t trust students. And from the point-of-view of students, filtering and blocking suggest that we are scared of what they might find out. Is that what education should be about? – Whatever happened to the notion that teachers are capable of educating their students? Whatever happened to the notion that it was better for a student to learn about the dangers of life among peers in the safety of a classroom led by a trained professional teacher rather than in the darkness of a bedroom alone in the glow of the computer screen? Our students are going to get the information one way or another. So why do we go out of our way to put them in a position where they can only do it beyond our field of vision? [...] Companies are called in to produce ‘school safe’ proprietary systems that look and feel like the social web, yet are entirely… – (Source: isteconnects.org, via blog.initiatived21.de)

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