Podcast: Choices

    Tonight's offering is a drive home spent thinking through choices, filters, this week's trip to the bookstore and some stuff I've read lately.  Specifically, one of Miguel's posts from earlier in the week.   As usual, the podcast is first draft thinking -- but it's been swirling around my brain for several days.
    Your thoughts, as always, are much appreciated.  I might be wrong on this one.

Comments

[Amy Flores]

Although I'm new to the edublog community and learning more about blogging.
It is quite interesting to see what everyone is blogging about...
I ran into Mighel at an EdTech day-conference in Austin, TX Thurs and he expanded on the whole myspace topic. (I had just learned how to get feeds from FeedBlitz earlier so I wasn't quite up to speed on his blog.)

The myspace issue was really big in SA- practically shutting down Warren H.S. in San Antonio due to a possible Columbine-like experience. Not sure if you were aware of this.
Link to SA news media that I googled.
I have noticed other have started blogging in response to this as well.

[Amy Flores]

Sorry - it didn't post my url you can find it on woai.com "Online Terror Threat Hits Local High School"

[Dean Shareski]

Bud,

You know I'm with you regarding your views on filtering. Even Miguel admits banning is a bandaid solution and I posted about that as well.

Filtering is a never ending battle you'll never win. Part of the issue is that it has never been part of education or curriculum before. I think if it's not explicitly part of curriculum it should certainly be dealt with in every area classroom.

Once you start down the path of filtering I don't know where it stops.

So does that mean we allow our students to go to sites like myspaces? Probably not but that only comes with an open discussion of why.

I like your ideas on choices. Today's kids are bombarded with way more choice than they've ever had. Teaching students how to make wise choices should be a major component of any information based classroom. I'd be interested to see how many kids in districts where myspaces has been banned hit the site at home compared students in districts who haven't banned the site. My gut tells me if districts deal with the issues surrounding the content and the dangers of revealing this content, that many students would make better choices, or at least be equipped to make better choices.

[Miguel Guhlin]

Bud, thank you for your thoughts. I'm going to respond in a podcast of my own, but you did inspire me to write about something I've been mulling over. I hope you don't mind my sharing it with you here! It's available online at:
http://www.mguhlin.net/blog/archives/2005/11/entry_663.htm