Apr 26, 2011 Show Failed to save articlePlease try again This article is more than 9 years old. Over the past few weeks, I've been hearing from frustrated teachers about surprising websites their schools block -- everything from National Geographic to Skype. One even wrote in to say that CommonCore.org was blocked. A few readers questioned the judgment of teachers who use their own mobile devices to allow their students access to blocked sites. One reader, identified as Cwells67, goes so far as to claim: "If we do not block inappropriate sites 'to the extent practicable,' meaning 'if you can block inappropriate sites, you are legally bound to block them,' we will lose ALL FEDERAL FUNDING." To clear up some of the confusion around these comments and assertions, I went straight to the top: the Department of Education's Director of Education Technology, Karen Cator. Cator parsed the rules of the Childrens Internet Protection Act, and provided guidance for teachers on how to proceed when it comes to interpreting the rules. To that end, here are six surprising rules that educators, administrators, parents and students might not know about website filtering in schools.
Here's the full transcript of my Q&A with Karen Cator. Q. Please describe what CIPA does and does not mandate. A. CIPA does require that any school that funds Internet access or their internal network connections with E-rate has to implement filters to block students' access to content that could be harmful to minors. The best way of thinking about this whole topic is in terms of "rules, tools and schools." Q. Is it illegal for teachers to access these sites, too? A. These sites don’t have to be blocked for teachers. Some of the comments I saw online had to do with teachers wondering why they can’t access these sites. They absolutely can. There’s nothing that says that sites have to be blocked for adults. Rules are in place to attempt to protect minors form inappropriate materials. We also need school-based rules -- usually in the form of acceptable use policies that students sign that say, “I will use this computer or access the Internet, and I agree to abide by rules in my school." Sometimes it will say that if you come across something inappropriate that you shut it down immediately and tell an adult. The second way to address this topic is by thinking about tools. These are technology tools that are put in place to filter sites that are inappropriate. These filters are getting better and better. What we have had is what I consider brute force technologies that shut down wide swaths of the Internet, like all of YouTube, for example. Or they may shut down anything that has anything to do with social media, or anything that is a game. These broad filters aren’t actually very helpful, because we need much more nuanced filtering. Better filters would be incredibly helpful. The third way to address the topic is at school or
home in the form of education. So there are rules that are in place, the technology tools in the form of more intelligent filters, and then it is an absolute necessity to provide good digital education for this generation of students. And that requires providing professional development for adults working with these students. Q. Just to be clear, are schools or teachers circumventing rules if they show YouTube videos or other blocked sites to students? A. Absolutely it’s not circumventing the rules. The rule is to block inappropriate sites. If the technology fails us and filters something appropriate and useful, and if teachers in their professional judgment think it's appropriate, they should be able to show it. Teachers need to impose their professional judgment on materials that are available to their students. All sorts of YouTube videos are helpful in explaining complex concepts or telling a story, or for hearing an expert or an authentic voice -- they present learning opportunities that are really helpful. If a filtering system is not intelligent enough to sort sites out, then the teacher is the next best one to do so. If a site is blocked for a teacher, then the I.T. person can unblock it if that’s the way the network is set up. From the DOE's National Education Technology Plan:Balancing Connectivity and Student Safety on the Internet
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