Yesterday was an exciting day in the school-tech world, as a group of educators met at the White House and discuss education policy relating to technology – specifically the access and cost of broadband for students. A special daytime version of #edtechchat was held, and I had the opportunity to give my 2 cents on the opportunities technology allows for differentiation:
Thanks to Tom Murray and the #edtechchat crew for their sharing out from this exciting day.
But today brought my twitter enthusiasm to a screeching halt….overnight our tech department applied a new filter to the district network. Students and staff are now under the same network filet umbrella. The net result here is that TWITTER IS BLOCKED! {insert dramatic twist music}
Part of my morning then became e-mail back and forth between our tech folks and administrators, expressing my disappointment. For now, I can access twitter through a “15 minute window”, which clearly is a non-solution. Through these “conversations”, the filtering of twitter for students has risen as an issue, so I have a few questions for my blog friends:
- Do students in your district have access to twitter during the school day?
- Have you experienced any discipline issues related to twitter?
- Why should students have twitter “unblocked”? Give me your best argument.
OK, so today was more of a rant…rather than an opener… Sometimes unpredictable episodes occur.
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