Web Filters Are Too Restrictive At School

Technology is everywhere; it is almost inevitable. In 2013 a study was done by the American Community Survey showing just how much we use computers.The study showed that eighty- four percent of american households owned a computer. Although technology is on the rise, it may not be the best answer for everything. Computers are relied on heavily in schools all over the world which could eventually be a problem. There are many flaws that the internet and schooling systems may never be able to ‘fix’. Many people take advantage of this luxury. Yet there is a large population of people who do not agree with the certain use of technology in schools. Although ideas with the internet are limitless, not all luxuries in life are provided. Most things

Technology allows us to be connected to more resources and makes it faster to gather information. In the article, “High School Should Not Participate”, it states that ”Technology

Technology has only recently become apart of life and it is continuously growing and evolving. Generations have become dependent on electronic devices, it is used in everyday life. Though it is not a bad thing unlike commonly believed. The school should not participate in “Shut Down Your Screen Week” because the technological database offers many learning opportunities and has the ability to make students smarter.

"According to the First Amendment, Congress cannot prohibit the freedoms of speech, or the press. There has been controversy over the government overstepping its lines involving internet content. I believe that the government has the right monitor emails and social media accounts if there is a threat of potential terrorism. I also believe in net neutrality. But there is a stopping point. I do not think it is right for schools to monitor emails and social media accounts

According to the article “What’s the Matter with the Kids Today”, many adults believe that new technology is consuming the minds of young people. Amy Goldwasser uses research from Common Core surveys as well as Doris Lessing’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech to create her argument. Goldwasser uses these examples to explain that if parents and teachers better understood the use of technology, students wouldn’t be punished for their overuse of technology today.

The purpose of this op. ed. is to explain the Waldorf school system's policy that technology should not be allowed in a child's education. This is developed firstly through the use of explaining what parents think of their children's education. For example, many times throughout the article it is mentioned that many parents of students attending Waldorf schools are employees of technologically advanced companies such as Google and Apple. Also, the article gives quotes from parents, such as one from Alan Eagle,

While elementary and middle schools have obvious needs for restrictions, Internet access at the high school level isn't as black and white. High school students are sensitive to their given rights, yet are officially minors under the law; teenagers are ever nearing adulthood, but are sometimes viewed as immature. So, high school administrators are challenged with designing an Internet policy that meets the educational needs of the students and the moral demands of society. Although software is being designed to "censor" the content of the Internet, student trust and responsibility might be a more reasonable route.

The top three filters that are used ar Url-based, keyword-based, and finally blacklist-based. Out of the schools asked the schools said 70% use Url-based filters. This is because the filter goes more in-depth and doesn’t take away from the students learning experience. Url-based is where the filter will search for educational sites and filter out the ones that are not educational. After a list of bad sites has been generated the filter will then block those site from minors accessing them will connected to the schools internet. The second filter type, which is keyword-based, is used in 60% of the schools asked. Keyword-based could be good because the filter reads the whole site and if there are any words that have been blacklisted in the filters software then the filter will block the whole site from minors access. So let's say the website the student was trying to access had a the word, “Pornography” on it the filter would ban the website from viewing. Third, Blacklists, Blacklists have a set list of websites that have been put together by the government that they think the information on the site is harmful to minors and should be blocked from access. When schools were asked if their online content was filtered 98% said content is filtered at school. The question is though to what extent. 94% said they use filtering software such as the

The implication of web filters in schools is a major controversial topic and it has been for many years. One of the reasons we have web filters set up within schools in the first place comes from the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA). This act, enacted in 2000, requires that K-12 schools use some form of internet filters as a way to protect students from the potential harm of what they may come across on the internet. This

On the website, Technology in Education, a teacher who was not named blogged about how hard it is to teach a lesson because some many websites are restricted. She went on to describe how things have gotten better, but she goes on to a quote Melinda Anderson’s from her article about internet filtering in schools. “We sometimes think too much about the content that we block, and we limit their opportunities to succeed, explore their passions, and discover their strengths and talents.” There is no doubt that if a teacher is having problems accessing vital information, it brings up the question of how much important information are high school students missing out on especially for those without access to the internet at

It's not a good students fault that there are a couple of bad students looking at explicit websites, so why does two bad kids have to ruin it for an entire school? Good students have to sneak around and use a VPN so they can do research on youtube for a computer class that requires you to watch youtube videos to work on a certain lesson.

You have a project due, but many of the websites you need for your research are blocked by your school’s filters. Many students have this problem when searching the web, which is why school web filters used to block inferior websites from students are too restrictive, and should be revised or removed.

Finally, students cannot take advantage of personal time with overly restrictive filters. Many filters work using categories such as ‘social’, ‘forums’, or ‘audio/video’. Interactive or social media websites are often blocked without considering educational use of some communal websites. For example, sites where students interact with each other and discuss novels are blocked, categorized as ‘forums’. Administrations must acknowledge that not every interactive site distracts students, and blocking them takes away technology’s full experience and the ways it allows students to

Title: Yes, there are serious ethical issues associated with the use of technology among children. The topic is derived from the questions posed in part A of the assignment. Part A looked at the pros and cons of allowing children to use technology.

Censorship is not limited to repressive regimes or network television. Weather we know it or not censorship is happening all the time throughout the day. We censor ourselves, we listen to censored music and as students we see the internet being heavily censored in school. The Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) was signed into law in 2000; the law requires any public schools or library to filter any inappropriate content from the computers being used by minors. Since the law has been put in place, schools across America have installed programs that use keywords to designate certain types of websites off-limits to students while using the schools internet server. The problem with these filtering programs is that they block many sites that are not pornographic or obscene in nature, Instead they tend to block sites dealing with controversial but not inappropriate content. Although the CIPA was created to protect, it has been used as a soft form of censorship in schools.