Internet at High Schools
by The Internet and its World Wide Web provide students entry to millions of web pages that have sexual content, including pornography, deviant sexual behavior, and sex predators.
The Internet and its World Wide Web provide students entry to millions of web pages that have sexual content, including pornography, deviant sexual behavior, and sex predators. A high school’s faculty members were distressed about students using school computers to access such websites and sites like facebook, myspace, orkut, youtube etc. Not only was such a practice deemed damaging to students’ moral development, but it wasted time that should be invested in constructive learning. The problem the faculty faced was that of controlling what students viewed on the Internet without curtailing their access to the host of valuable learning resources available on the World Wide Web.
The Faculty’s Decision
The following are options the high-school staff members considered when deciding how they would cope with the problem of eroticism on the Internet. The school could:
- Provide no access to the Internet from school computers but then the web pages that were considered educationally valuable would no longer be available to either students or teachers.
- Install web filters on school computers to block out selected sites that had undesirable sexual content.
- Retain unrestricted access to Internet websites but instruct students to avoid sexual material.
- Assign faculty members to periodically (a) observe which sites students visited and (b) open students’ computer files to discover if the files contained pornographic content.
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Post CommentChris Stonecipher
On August 26, 2009 at 10:59 am
If a school wanted to be more restrictive, they could just have an intranet with only library content, and like you said a general filtered site that only allows educational content shown.
Michael Degenhardt
On August 26, 2009 at 12:07 pm
While it becomes more and more difficult to filter content I find it necessary to monitor content and that can be done in two ways, via someone remotely to all the comoputers in that school and monitors (staff) walking around the users. Your article is informative and important in todays world as the internet is a key influence on todays children. Michael
Nikita K
On September 3, 2009 at 5:14 pm
We have an intranet and that really sucks because sometimes, when you need vital information, you are banned from going to those sites and it automatically restricts you so basically you can’t do even normal work.
Oh well, that’s life!
Noodleman
On December 2, 2009 at 1:34 am
At school we were doing this project on drugs and we couldn’t visit any sites with info about drugs because the filter block it… Filters aren’t worth it in my opinion, thats why I don’t have ANY filters or anything like that on my home computer =)