Are there examples of the same kinds of reactions to concerns about safety with use of technology in your country?

How do the policies under the good projects support online practice in the usa? or is it just a case of people doing it anyway and accepting casualties like the relief teacher who had spam pop up and who is now in jail?

What is happening for her now?
Have their been changes to computer maintenance, pd and shared responsibility since her experience?
what does usa good process look like.
is it based around adjusting the scope and opportunities to participate as the child learns more skills or is it more onesizefitsall? i believe there was also an canadian class doing math using currencies who was doing exchange rates with a class in the usa and that this is not longer happening because of safety concerns. safety is a skill as much as a fence around a space.

what are the shared responsibilities needed to ensure continued opportunities to learn skills in safety in a generative internet?
http://www.isoc-ny.org/?p=195

I don’t know of any similar cases in New Zealand. Each school is responsible for their own policies and safety practices and to have procedures in place to deal with staff and students who view unacceptable sites. (accidental or otherwise) Most schools have filters which block a lot of sites. Unfortunately, many of these filters block everything, especially web 2.0 tools, basically anything interactive. I believe we need to be teaching responsible practice with all students by giving them ownership of their practice. If they cannot maintain acceptable practices, then there will be need to be consequences and loss of privileges. As this determines the types of programmes that can be run in classrooms, loss of Internet privileges can be a deterrent. This link follows the story of one class that lost their wiki. We also need to be responsible for parent education. We cannot continue to wrap our students in cotton wool where new technologies are concerned. Our students are using the internet outside school as it is woven into all facets of our lives so it is more important for us, as teachers, to teach acceptable practice and values for life.

I agree regarding cotton wool.
Just trying to get the conversation beyond the binary and about the how of good practice online. Where are the best practice policies. What kinds of processes help parents students and teachers share responsibility for getting it right.

J, I think you have a good point about getting it beyond just being the ’schools problem’ to combining the knowledge building and education as a community. We know that both students, parents, teachers and the community need educating to good practice and use.

I am unsure about it from an USA perspective as I am from NZ. There is a varying degree of reaction to internet safety in regards to whether things should be banned or there should be more education - this seems to be a worldwide thought process though.

some people are simply ignorant and ruin good things for others.
i had one mum who read through my entire previous years blogging and comments from kids and wrote me a six page letter outlining instances where she thought th children undermined my authority and pointed out how i could be accused of other more sinister things. i nearly quit on the spot.
luckily there are sensible parents out there to balance the ledger.