Online Safety - More about Key Concepts (4)

Social media issues

New Jersey principal asks parents to ban social networking

Social media curriculum in schools


Website filtering - another element in an online safety policy for education

Wesley Fryer wrote this post on school internet filtering

and as a result of feedback he received he wrote this follow-up post, claiming what he had written was not a personal attack on all tech. directors.


Finally, a follow up on Tom Barrett's idea for staff to map what is is not allowed.

This post, Mapping the filter: What do you block?  provides a US perspective.


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Web Filtering - News and Views (1)

A topic that arouses high emotions and passionate, polarised opinions ...

Here is a selection of posts relevant to this topic, that I have collected over the last months.

Ewan McIintosh on Glow, Scotland, VLE and school filtering

Larry Magid writes on filtering for parents, recommending rarely for teens.

In a perfect world ... a teacher posts about a blocked website.

Web 2.0 and filtering

Filtering internet content for kids

Internet filtering as a form of soft censorship

Copyright, filtering issues for the 21st century.


I will continue to collate articles and post on this topic.