[Year 12 IT Apps] OT: Computer rollover

[Sam Denniston]

The enormous amount of rubbish that gets posted to YouTube outweighs the
good stuff. Not to mention some highly questionable and inappropriate
commenting - do a search on "holocaust" or "Nazi" and you'll see what I
mean. 

The internet experience at school should be different from the internet
experience at home. The same goes for computer use. What a waste of time and
bandwidth it would be to allow indiscriminate wilfing on YouTube!


On 10/8/07 11:59 AM, "Jones, Mark A" <jones.mark.a at edumail.vic.gov.au>
wrote:

> Dear all
> 
> The debate about Myspace and YouTube is all about adopting/accepting new
> educational technology. Such debates have probably being going on since
> schools were started.
> 
> Attached is slide show highlighting this point.
> (There was a sound file to provide some background music  but at 5.7 Mb it is
> too large.)
> 
> regards
> Mark Jones
> Cann River P-12 College
> 
> ________________________________
> 
> From: itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au on behalf of David Dawson
> Sent: Fri 10/08/07 10:57 AM
> To: itapps at edulists.com.au
> Subject: RE: [Year 12 IT Apps] OT: Computer rollover
> 
> 
> 
> Yeah,
> I agree with Ros. How can we prepare kids for the real world if all we
> are trying to do as administrators and IT managers, is shut down sites
> like MySpace, youtube and all the gaming they do without understanding
> its relevance or relative importance? Remember when TV was the big bad
> wolf? Radio? Cars? Fire?
> Did anyone else go to the Myspace generation in-service? I call it the
> Ostrich effect - after a slide showing one with head in sand! Hide our
> heads in the sand and hope the big scarey computer world will just go
> away.
> Some schools want to switch ON technology and others seem to want to
> shut it OFF! Which side are we on?
> 
> 
> David Dawson
> Head of Information Technology
> Head of Learning Technologies
> St.Kilda Rd Campus
> Wesley College, Melbourne
> 
>>>> Meadows.Roslyn.M at edumail.vic.gov.au 10/08/2007 9:43:13 am >>>
> Personally I don't see the hang up about playing games in the library
> at
> lunchtime:
>  - it is THEIR time
>  - they can borrow backgammon, chess or a pack of cards in the library
> and play them at lunchtime, (often with much more noise) so why not a
> computer game from a USB Bar or one they have created?
>  - they are able to play games in the gym or on the oval at lunchtime
> -
> why not in the library?
> 
> But still - not allowed in OUR library :(
> 
>          Roslyn Meadows
> Bentleigh Secondary College
> 9579 1044
> 0412 614 062
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