Educon Principles Applied to Filtering and Internet Access:

 

The Axioms

Guiding Principles of EduCon 2.0:

1) Our schools must be inquiry-driven, thoughtful and empowering for all members.

2) Our schools must be about co-creating -- together with our students -- the 21st Century Citizen

3) Technology must serve pedagogy, not the other way around.

4) Technology must enable students to research, create, communicate and collaborate

5) Learning can -- and must -- be networked.

 

 

The laws:

 

CIPA defined:

 From the FCC

 

Full text from the Federal Register

 

Law requires:

filtering of images

ability to turn off filter for adult use(which would include students over 17)

internet policy for email, chat, etc.

 

 

 

Issues:

 

1. Adult use of internet in schools:

 

CIPA states that: 

"An authorized person may disable the blocking or filtering measure during any use by an adult to enable access for bona fide research or other lawful purposes."

 

2.  Over filtering

 

 

 

ALA links to public policy reports and research studies on detriments of over-filtering:

 

 

ALA on Filtering;

 

Numerous studies, including those by the National Research Council, the U.S. Children's Online Protection Act Commission, and the Kaiser Family Foundation, have documented that filters fail to block many sites banned under CIPA as well as overblock hundreds of thousands of perfectly legal, useful sites. Expert witnesses representing both the plaintiffs and the government in the CIPA case corroborated these findings that are well documented in the Court findings. In addition to underblocking and overblocking, the Kaiser Family Foundation study also found that filters set above the lowest settings block another 50 percent of legal sites but only an additional 4 percent of sites banned by CIPA. Therefore, ALA urges libraries that choose to install filters to set their filters at the least restrictive level in order to minimize the blocking of Constitutionally protected speech.

 

 

 

3. ?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Best Practices:

 

National School Board Association

Creating and Connecting: Research and Guidelines on online Social--and Educational--Networking

 

ISTE 

Advocacy Toolkits 

 

NETS for Students

 

Ed Tech Action Network--communicate with legislators; follow issues

 

 

ALA Statement on Communicating with Public about Filters

ALA Recommendations on communicating with community about filtering(could be adapted for schools?)

 

Prairie South School Division statement of policy for faculty

 

 

For students:

 

Stay Safe resources for teen bloggers, etc.

 

Other helpful resources

 

Nancy Willard on Internet Safety, education, and filters

 

Vicki Davis and Sharon Peters sample wiki on need for AUPS for web 2.0

 

Frances Bradburn  White Paper of resources on internet safety/filtering, web 2.0 tools, etc.

 

Frances Bradburn excellent blog post on workshop conducted with David Warlick --Ramifications of Social Networking tools   (use this for quotes !!)

 

Filter and Filter Software report -- review of report on filters and issues; recommendations

 

 

Educon Participants:  Statement of Recommended Best Practices

 

Sticky Statement?

 

Guiding Principles