Comments on: Having to deal with Content Filtering http://ideasandthoughts.org/2007/03/05/having-to-deal-with-content-filtering/ Learning stuff since 1964 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:09:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Scott McLeod http://ideasandthoughts.org/2007/03/05/having-to-deal-with-content-filtering/comment-page-1/#comment-21011 Scott McLeod Wed, 07 Mar 2007 00:54:21 +0000 http://ideasandthoughts.org/2007/03/05/having-to-deal-with-content-filtering/#comment-21011 Agreed. Thoughtful dialogue is facilitated, though, by an understanding of how the filtering software makes its decisions (and on what moral base it rests). If you don't know this up front, or don't even know to ask or think about it, you make certain assumptions about the software that may or may not be valid. Good luck! Agreed. Thoughtful dialogue is facilitated, though, by an understanding of how the filtering software makes its decisions (and on what moral base it rests). If you don’t know this up front, or don’t even know to ask or think about it, you make certain assumptions about the software that may or may not be valid.

Good luck!

]]> By: Dean Shareski http://ideasandthoughts.org/2007/03/05/having-to-deal-with-content-filtering/comment-page-1/#comment-21004 Dean Shareski Tue, 06 Mar 2007 22:08:54 +0000 http://ideasandthoughts.org/2007/03/05/having-to-deal-with-content-filtering/#comment-21004 I'm not sure that's the case in our situation. But there will inevitably be controversy over what is and isn't appropriate. Teachers are already making these decisions in their classrooms and to a certain extent, I don't have a problem. We can never or I nor do I think we should eliminate the diversity of beliefs within our schools. The biggest concern I have is that the dialoge does not take place. That's my biggest fear. Blocking without education and dialog is dangerous and short sighted. I’m not sure that’s the case in our situation. But there will inevitably be controversy over what is and isn’t appropriate.

Teachers are already making these decisions in their classrooms and to a certain extent, I don’t have a problem. We can never or I nor do I think we should eliminate the diversity of beliefs within our schools. The biggest concern I have is that the dialoge does not take place.

That’s my biggest fear. Blocking without education and dialog is dangerous and short sighted.

]]> By: Scott McLeod http://ideasandthoughts.org/2007/03/05/having-to-deal-with-content-filtering/comment-page-1/#comment-20982 Scott McLeod Tue, 06 Mar 2007 18:12:30 +0000 http://ideasandthoughts.org/2007/03/05/having-to-deal-with-content-filtering/#comment-20982 Often school personnel fail to recognize that the filtering software itself represents morality-based decisions. It's not just the decisions educators use about what to block / unblock. Nancy Willard has done some interesting work on this topic: http://tinyurl.com/28efd4 http://tinyurl.com/yodpvq Often school personnel fail to recognize that the filtering software itself represents morality-based decisions. It’s not just the decisions educators use about what to block / unblock. Nancy Willard has done some interesting work on this topic:

http://tinyurl.com/28efd4
http://tinyurl.com/yodpvq

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