I came across this piece in The Bismarck Tribune about how Century High School in North Dakota's capital is easing up on its Internet restrictions.
The Bismarck school district is apparently reviewing its Internet filtering policies to allow appropriate uses of Web 2.0 tools, starting in high school.
When I wrote about Internet filtering recently, I found that many educators are pushing for less-restrictive policies in favor of more comprehensive lessons to educate students about the potential dangers on the Web.
Have you heard of other districts going this route?
It's about time that schools wise up and recognize that it's better to teacher students how to use the tools of Web 2.0 effectively than to simply ignore these tools and graduate students who lack Twenty-First Century skills. It's my suspicion that before too long students are regularly using Wikipedia. Hopefully they won't use it as an ultimate source of information, but as one resource amongst many.
Andrew Pass
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