I think this is something Jeff asked one of the students (Jennifer). This is one of my greatest concerns as a parent, and 2nd as an educator of technology. I myself need to explore this area deeper. I find the tools that you can buy off the shelf are not enough to keep our kids safe. I have now learned to use the reverse method as a parent at home – Disallow everything and only add sites as you require them. After a really bad experience with both Goolge images and uTube videos (that got past the rating systems) I don’t allow these two websites on my family computer. (Which by the way is located in the living room and not in the children’s bedroom) This can be another blog “Computers in the child’s bedroom – How safe are they?”
I hope to share and see what other parents are doing . I am also looking forward to see and hear Jeff’s insight with regards to this topic.
Sunday, February 3, 2008
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Hi Heidi!!!I like Your blog! its very intellagent your a very smart woman! I do agree with your points! there are some pretty deadly things out there on the net! and i have noticed that this School has taken that step where they block sites such as youtube and facebook! because i have tried hehe! --- nice to see ya happy to be taken this course with yoU! :)
yes yes very interesting.
If you know how to block and unblcok things, then i suppose Google can still be utilized when needed to seach things for projects and the sort right?
I agree with doing this, but wonder how complicated it is to unblock the search sites, for when they are actually needed for information.
I know personally, I love my google...I use it as a dictionary, thesaurus, cook book, pretty much everything. Maybe their are cleaner search engines?!?!?
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