Filtering makes me crabby too!I think as long as we have home filtering options/suggestions for families to investigate, that will help. I have had parents who are not tech savvy wanting me to install it for them.....which is a slippery slope. Before you know it they want you to come to their house to get their wifi working, etc. The nature of 1 to 1 is that you cross over into that grey area of how far are we responsible for what happens with the laptops at home. The family home battles over Facebook, games etc instead of homework getting done have come up in the past. We will have "leave it at school overnight in a safe spot" options available for those that can not manage the laptop at home and only use it at school. We had a few High school students last year that were in this situation, but I think it may be more of an issue at the middle school level. When you introduce a computer in the home when there has been none before, all kinds of interesting dynamics come out.JeanThis e-mail may contain information protected under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). If this e-mail contains student information and you are not entitled to access such information under FERPA, please notify the sender. Federal regulations require that you destroy this e-mail without reviewing it and you may not forward it to anyone.
Filtering makes me crabby. SB is also launching a 1:1 this year and I think our plan is to not let me talk to the parents when they ask how we are going to do their job…
We can always suggest to them using something like OpenDNS to filter their browsing, but I sincerely hope they don’t expect us to do it for them. We do have an M86 content filter so we can filter for them… I just really, really hope it doesn’t come down to that.
Mike
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HI All,
We are starting a middle school 1 to 1 in our district this year along with the HS one.
What are people doing when parents ask about content filter at home for the school issued laptops?
We are looking at a PC platform, and I am sure it will be a bigger issue at the MS level.
Here is an older post with some ideas but just wondering what you are doing.
Thanks, Jean
Jean Campbell
CESU Technology Support211 Browns Trace
Jericho, VT 05465
Phone: 802-858-1726
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