Comments on: An Update to the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA)

By: lthumann

lthumann — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 01:50:41 +0000

Pat and Mike,
I believe that modeling is one of the best ways we can teach our students to be good cyber citizens. Like Mike wrote, it will take time, but is we begin to integrate projects that involve these skills into our curriculum, the students will learn the appropriate net behavior. Thank you both for your comments.
Lisa

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 01:34:20 +0000

I think it has to go beyond filtering AND beyond units on cyberbullying, social networking, etc. that get shoe-horned into the curriculum by administrators eager to show parents and the world that they are taking cyber safety seriously. Ultimately, kids will learn how to interact with others online by doing it again and again in meaningful tasks connected to the curriculum. I.e. when all of their teachers begin to model appropriate net behavior and the students are required to work and collaborate with each other and with outsiders on the net every day, then over time they will truly learn how to be good cyber-citizens.

By: Pat

Pat — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 01:25:25 +0000

It seems to me that by blocking things from our students we are defeating the purpose of teaching them how to use tools appropriately. Just as a car can be driven to places that students shouldn’t go to, we don’t take away their car in case they might go to these places. Instead we teach them the appropriate places to go to. Thanks for sharing this info!

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By: lthumann

lthumann — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 22:31:07 +0000

Thanks for your comments Vicky. It’s been amazing to me how many educators are not aware of CIPA. I’m looking forward to seeing how our schools (and networks) accommodate the revisions and help bring more of our classrooms into the 21st Century.

By: Vicki Davis

Vicki Davis — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 21:47:40 +0000

Excellent article!!! It is a great overview and I’m posting it tomorrow morning on my blog to encourage others to read what you’ve shared.

I appreciate you digging in and sharing the important things that schools MUST be doing. I’m so proud of ISTE for having a part in getting this added to CIPA.

And I don’t think a teacher talking at the front of the classroom is going to teach like having free safe social networking, chatting, and other tools to use in the classroom. I wonder if the language, still, however, makes schools want to do this in a way that doesn’t link kids to those outside their classrooms.

I also think that http://www.think.com is a great place to teach this in elementary ed.

By: lthumann

lthumann — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:57:39 +0000

I agree with you Ken.
The group of technology teachers I met with yesterday all agreed that we need to educate students on how to use their internal filters This way, when they get home and there is no filter installed, they have some background on how to deal with inappropriate material.

Thanks for your comment.
Lisa

By: KenS

KenS — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:24:19 +0000

Blocking and filtering won’t stop a net-savvy teen who wants to view/watch/do what they want to do. The only way to teach them how to act as Responsible CyberCitizens online is to KNOW that they are doing online.

When cars were introduced, we didn’t just give keys to teens and say “here, have a blast.” Kids need to be monitored online and parents need to talk to their kids. Hopefully soon we can start putting some ideals into the heads of internet users at a young age so that it doesn’t continue to grow into the Wild West it has become.

Blocking and filtering alone is a joke. It’s a false sense of security and nothing more than ‘guessing.’ Parents need to know. Knowledge is obtainable with programs like PC Pandora. When you’re a parent, there’s no reason not to know. Unless you’re just lazy…
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