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It’s late 2015 and we’re still overblocking the Internet

Dangerously Irrelevant

One of my doctoral students’ dissertations at the University of Minnesota , for instance, found that overzealous school filtering prohibited student access to online content essential for satisfying state Social Studies and Health curricular standards. Image credit: Save the Internet Net Neutrality protest , Steve Rhodes.

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The 2 Biggest Barriers To Learning in Modern Schools - Consideration 7

The Innovative Educator

It used to be that 1:1 technology access was a novelty. Furthermore with companies like Neverware which can turn most any old device into a high-speed Chromebook, cost and tech support are no longer the barriers they once were. When we block social networks, can we be surprised when students don’t use them responsibly?