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Originally Posted by SmokeyTheBear
Closed networks are the only way to go.. This doesnt mean wikipedia is OUT it just means that an open etwork cant be connected to a closed one or its not really closed.. In an ideal world . the teacher would be the only one who would have access to the open connection . If a child wanted an item from wikipedia it would be sent to the admin/teacher to add to the closed network. they would review the contents on the open network and add it to the closed network for students to use..
Done and done. puts the power out of the students and into the teacher once again. This way they can explain the context of what they are reading.. and filter out anything problematic
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Unfortunately that is not a very realistic expectation from a teacher, who is already overburdened by teaching and supervising a class of 30-40 students (all a while getting paid fairly minimally and getting little to no respect from their students). The only option would be to hire more teachers to help supervise the content of open sites (in order to keep the children away from all the scary dangerous things in the world, like michael jackson wikis and britney spears lyrics) and add whatever content the students request to the CS from said sites… and I honestly just don't see this happening.
So you have the option of: A. Allowing the child access to an incredibly useful tool in which 99% of the time he or she will never see anything ‘bad’ on.
OR
B. Banning it outright from schools, allowing no access to it whatsoever.
I think I’d rather go with choice A.