More Tech and Edutopia Article

A "recent" Edutopia article about not blocking too many sites from students at school actually has a negative effect on students rather than protecting them. This article has brought up issues that we have already talked about in EML 595 and I'm sure any MLTI schools have faced. The problem I have with this article is that it was originally published 11/5/2008. The day after President Obama got elected with much excitement. Now, two years later things have changed drastically. My point is, so much has changed over the course of the last two years, politics, economy, morale, etc. but it doesn't seem like we have lifted any of the bands or the strictness of using the internet in schools. If anything, we are getting stricter. Is this really teaching our students anything? Eventually they will use a computer and have full access to all the good and bad available to them via the web. We should be teaching them how to be critical of information presented to them, how to communicate effectively with others over the web, and use the resources available to expand their learning in interests both in school and at home. Blocking everything on a large scale penalizes those who would and those who need to learn how to use the technology purposefully.