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| Format: | Recurso educativo Open Access |
| Language: | en |
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2007
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| Online Access: | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ755241 |
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- The Elephant in the Room: School Districts Nationwide Are Voluntarily Filtering the Filters--And No One Is Talking about It Bell, Mary Ann Internet Censorship School Libraries School Districts Access to Information In this article, the author expresses her disappointment over the self-censorship being practiced by some schools. Some schools are only letting students search sites on district-approved lists, while others are imposing stringent time limits on certain sites. In a few extreme cases, schools banned Internet entirely. These practices are blocking massive amounts of crucial information related to religion, health, politics, and other important subjects and limiting the free exchange of ideas. The author contends that filters and self-censorship will not keep students safe from online smut, but teaching them safe and smart searching techniques will. The author provides strategies on how to counter this trend of filtering and self-censorship.