Ewan’s seminars are a call to blog! A message to education to find ways of using social networking technology, not ban it. At a later seminar with Sharon Markless she’s surprised to find the number of schools that block Bebo and the like. An Education Advisor, who has been on the end of several such comments all day by looks of it, points to child protection issues as reasons for sites being blocked.
But surely we need better filtering, not total bans? Something that parents could use as well. Easy? Not in the least. But the minute our pupils leave school they have access to the whole world and all its dangers. We don’t pretend real dangers don’t exist, we educate. It’s kind of the equivalent of if you can’t see the monsters, then they can’t see you.
