Re: Firewalling the WEB
Brad Michels (bmichels@colosys.net)
Sat, 13 Jul 1996 12:07:20 EDT
Rona King <audumont@wave.tcs.tulane.edu> wrote:
> I would like to thank all the people who responded to questions
>about firewalling the WEB. Our school systems technology group,
>partially in response to your replies, is rethinking whether or not we
>should firewall at all. We are looking at the acceptable use policy and
>putting the responsibility of proper access on the student. We are also
>establishing guidelines for breaking the acceptable use policy. One of
>the first consequences mentioned is to talk away computer privileges;
>however, some of us think there is a compelling reason why this option
>should not be used. Computers are a sophisticated educational tool
>seeminglessly integrated in all curricular areas. By taking away
>computer privileges, the message being given is that computers are other
>than and not essential to the curriculum. I guess it would be equivalent
>to taking away microscope privileges in a biology class.
Look at it a different way. Isn't punishment supposed to fit the
violation? If a student abuses a tool, computer, microscope, hammer, do we
continue to let them use that same tool or do we take it away for a time
period. Maybe if the abuser of that computer had to do his/her work on a
typewriter, they'd think twice about abusing it again.
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