School Firewalls Draw Teachers’ Complaints
Tech-savvy teachers have long been irritated by firewalls and content filters installed on school computer systems to protect students’ safety and privacy. But Teacher magazine reports that complaints seem to be ratcheting up, and suggests two reasons why:
Increasingly, business and higher education leaders are asking why students aren’t better prepared to create and collaborate using online tools, and more schools and districts are beginning to loosen Internet restrictions, prompting other educators to ask: “If they can do it, why can’t we?”
During a Teacher online discussion, one STEM instructor who focuses on engineering commented that “kids are going to be on a par with students from third-world countries with regard to technology if we keep on like this. We should be helping students learn the technology tools of their workforce, and teaching them how to use them appropriately and responsibly.”
Filed under: K-12 Education News
Tags: Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Education Policy
