Sunday, March 1, 2009

Pros and Cons of Internet access to students.

I am interested in teaching High School students. I believe that at those ages we still need to supervise our students. There are many web sites and web pages that are inappropriate to high school students. As educators we can set up firewalls that block many web sites of our choosing. But with today’s different ways of accessing the web this is a new challenge that is facing educators. We have to understand that at this level what we allow and block is more relaxed than middle school and elementary schools. Students have to be allowed to access content for research projects that maybe questionable but educational at the same time. This is the fine line that we have to walk to allow our students to learn and grow. Talking in generalizations most students would use this broader based web access to their advantage to learn and thrive. But some will use it for their amusement and ill mind. So supervision is still the key to keeping the web a viable and appropriate educational tool in our schools.

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