Re: internet supervision

[Jane Arnett <ajarnett@TENET.EDU>]

I also found some of the suggestions for internet supervision to be
unreasonable for high school students.  We allow students to browse the
internet during their free time and of course they go to find sites that
interest them..World Wrestling Federation, cars, dirtbikes, song lyrics,
etc..my feeling is that in searching for material that interests them they
are teaching themselves how to be information literate as opposed to mearly
computer literate.  When an assignment comes along they will know how to
search the internet.  We include a page in the student handbook that covers
our basic internet rules.  Students and parents must sign that they have
received and are willing to comply with the rules and guides in the
handbook.  Also as a personal opinion, standing behind someone and reading
their computer screen is as rude as reading printed material over their
shoulder...a quick look at the page graphics can tell you all you need to
know about where the student is on the Internet.
Jane Arnett,  Media Specialist
Waltrip High School Library
ajarnett@tenet.edu

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> From: Mary Alice Anderson <Maryalice@VAX2.WINONA.MSUS.EDU>
> To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
> Subject: Tech: internet supervision
> Date: Wednesday, October 21, 1998 7:42 PM
>
> I am writing to respectfully differ with some of the suggestions in the
HIT
> about Internet supervision.
>
> Yes, we need to suprvise, yes we need policies, but I think should allow
> kids to surf when appropriate. Don't we encourage them to browse through
> magazines and books? It's no different if we really want them to use
> information resources for both school assignments and leisure. Many kids
> have hobbies and intrestes and some of those needs are best met with the
> internet.
> Our policy is that class assignemnts always take precedence and we don't
> want the same kids "hogging" the internet during before and after schoel
> open time. But, it is wonderful to see them excited about the information
> they find. Yesterday for excample I watched how excited a group of girls
> who were very excited about something. They are allkids whose families
are
> recent immigrants to the United States; I know they do not have acess to
> the Internet in their homes.
>
>
> Our school policy is that everyone has permission and permission is
> defaulted to "yes" in the district computer system. If a parent does not
> want to have the child use the internet then they fill out an "opt out"
> form. We had only had one or two kids out of 1100 opt out. This is lot
less
> paperwork than rquiring a form from over 4700 kids! Wehave a district AUP
> and also some shortened "common sense guidelines" posted by all the
> computers.
>
> I am convinced that the best suprvision is good staff development and
good
> lesson design. With 3 years "under our belt" and the teachers using the
> internet in valid ways problems are practically non exstent.
>
> Mary Alice Anderson, Media Specialist
>         & Editorial Consultant, _Book Report/Technology Connection_
>         and columnist,  _Multimedia Schools_
> Winona Middle School        166 West Broadway
> Winona MN 55987               Ph: 507-454-9439
>
> School web site:  http://wms.luminet.net
> Personal home page: http://wms.luminet.net/teachers/manderso.html
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>
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