Results from Blocked Web Apps Survey Published

Posted by Kate Olson on April 8th, 2008

You can see the published google spreadsheet from this survey here - Education Blocked Web Applications. The response wasn’t as high as I expected it would be, but it did give a small-scale picture of the situation. Rather than immediately throw my beliefs and theories at you, I ask this:

What are the educational implications of a filtered internet?

I’m leaving this open-ended and broad purposely, interpret it as you’d like.

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Cathy Nelson said,

April 8, 2008 @ 9:14 pm

So is this the new site? In te process of building my own and getting ready for a move off of Edublogs. Domain purchased. Still trying to understand the mechanics tho. Maybe I will call on your for help, since you are way ahead of me in the game.

Richard Byrne said,

April 9, 2008 @ 1:27 pm

Interesting information in the spreadsheet. I always feel lucky that my district doesn’t block many web applications at the high school level. It allows for teachers and students to be more creative in the delivery and receipt of information.
In some ways banned websites are today’s version of banned books.

Richard
http://freetech4teachers.blogspot.com

diane said,

April 10, 2008 @ 7:29 pm

Latest wrinkle in our district: letter from MS/HS principal saying that YouTube will be blocked “permanently” when we come back from Spring Break on the advice of the NYS Education Department and the NYS Police.

We are to use StudentTube or TeacherTube. Had class take a look at StudentTube today - they hated it! None of the music groups they want to hear, mainly Public Service Announcements & student-made videos. I know from experience that TeacherTube loads very slowly and doesn’t have many of the educational videos I like to use.

Main benefit of both sites: filtered content. Welcome to our cell block.

[Problem re. instructional resources could be addressed if teachers had unblocking privileges, but the school is very reluctant to try this. If they don't trust us to use computers ethically, we shouldn't be working there, IMHO]

The Illogic of Blocking | The Polliwog Journal said,

June 3, 2008 @ 6:12 pm

[...] Kate Says has posted the results of a survey on blocking of educational Web applications, like blogs, YouTube, social networking sites, etc. In a very impromptu survey of one class today, I asked, “how many of you were using the Internet for a legitimate school assignment this year and got blocked.” I was not surprised that all of the students said that they had. [...]

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