So maybe the next thing on Secretary Duncan's list can be to encourage schools to unblock the very tools us to use. Just sayin'...
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How great would it be if there was a Twitter stream and students could make comments during the speech, or students could log in to the White House Facebook and make comments there. Oh, I forgot they are blocked at our school.
I really liked your post. I tried to get MIT's portion of YouTube unblocked for use in my AP Physics class, but received a "YouTube cannot be unblocked" response. My Google Reader was blocked for a time, but my request to have it unblocked was actually honored. Perhaps the Obama administration is out of touch with the realities of modern public education?
There's another great "open letter" on this topic at .
I don't necessarily think that the administration is out of touch, rather they're trying to move things forward. Not all schools voluntarily block youtube, so there are some schools translating CIPA differently than the schools that systematically block youtube, blogger, blogs, wikis, etc.
Isn't this whole thing just OUTRAGEOUS? To block it even from teachers is an indefensible position and one that WILL fall. It's only a question of When, not If.
And, I honestly don't do this, but along these same lines, read this post about the Flat Classroom Project and the HUGE disconnect there is in this country: http://tipline.blogspot.com/2009/09/some-go-to-mumbai-others-cant-even-read.html
@Joseph I do think they are both out of touch and they are trying to move things forward - but for political reasons. It's very "in" to be on FB and YouTube to appeal to the younger audience and I don't fault the admin for this, however it would be helpful if there was also a movement to let our school admins know that perhaps their interpretation of CIPA might be out of line. If our federal gov't is using a social video sharing network, then it can't be all evil. Thanks for commenting.
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How great would it be if there was a Twitter stream and students could make comments during the speech, or students could log in to the White House Facebook and make comments there. Oh, I forgot they are blocked at our school.
I really liked your post. I tried to get MIT's portion of YouTube unblocked for use in my AP Physics class, but received a "YouTube cannot be unblocked" response. My Google Reader was blocked for a time, but my request to have it unblocked was actually honored. Perhaps the Obama administration is out of touch with the realities of modern public education?
Great post. The state of internet usage in education is somewhat depressing.
Over at he makes the somewhat ironic connection that we will trust teachers with our children, but not the internet.
There's another great "open letter" on this topic at .
I don't necessarily think that the administration is out of touch, rather they're trying to move things forward. Not all schools voluntarily block youtube, so there are some schools translating CIPA differently than the schools that systematically block youtube, blogger, blogs, wikis, etc.
Great post!
Isn't this whole thing just OUTRAGEOUS? To block it even from teachers is an indefensible position and one that WILL fall. It's only a question of When, not If.
And, I honestly don't do this, but along these same lines, read this post about the Flat Classroom Project and the HUGE disconnect there is in this country: http://tipline.blogspot.com/2009/09/some-go-to-mumbai-others-cant-even-read.html
Don't get me started. :-)
@Joseph
I do think they are both out of touch and they are trying to move things forward - but for political reasons. It's very "in" to be on FB and YouTube to appeal to the younger audience and I don't fault the admin for this, however it would be helpful if there was also a movement to let our school admins know that perhaps their interpretation of CIPA might be out of line. If our federal gov't is using a social video sharing network, then it can't be all evil. Thanks for commenting.