Comments for Filtering in Schools http://ulearn.netsafe.org.nz/filtering-in-schools Mon, 08 Mar 2010 06:21:18 +1300 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 Comment on Section 1 – Overview by hazelowendmc http://ulearn.netsafe.org.nz/filtering-in-schools/overview/comment-page-1/#comment-32 hazelowendmc Mon, 08 Mar 2010 06:21:18 +0000 http://ulearn.netsafe.org.nz/filtering-in-schools/?p=24#comment-32 Some key factors of education are helping students become active, self-directed, life-long learners. Partly, this involves giving students to opportunity to internalise guidelines around safety online, and to then apply those guidelines in a low-risk environment such as school, thereby developing analytical and evaluative tools that will serve them well for the future. It can also be a positive environment to discuss aspects such as cyber-bullying and strategies to deal with it. At the end of the day, students have to deal with risky situations every day - crossing the road is fraught with dangers, but kids aren't locked away from the traffic - rather they are taught strategies for crossing as safely as possible...including the self-directed decision as to whether they use the designated 'safe' option such as the pedestrian crossing. Obviously, learning, socialising, and being safe online is a rather more complex set of issues, but filtering, I feel does not do justice to the potential of our learners to develop their own critical awareness that will continue to keep them safe once they have left school. Some key factors of education are helping students become active, self-directed, life-long learners. Partly, this involves giving students to opportunity to internalise guidelines around safety online, and to then apply those guidelines in a low-risk environment such as school, thereby developing analytical and evaluative tools that will serve them well for the future. It can also be a positive environment to discuss aspects such as cyber-bullying and strategies to deal with it.

At the end of the day, students have to deal with risky situations every day – crossing the road is fraught with dangers, but kids aren’t locked away from the traffic – rather they are taught strategies for crossing as safely as possible…including the self-directed decision as to whether they use the designated ’safe’ option such as the pedestrian crossing.

Obviously, learning, socialising, and being safe online is a rather more complex set of issues, but filtering, I feel does not do justice to the potential of our learners to develop their own critical awareness that will continue to keep them safe once they have left school.

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