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Reading "Do you have a library supervisor?" at Doug Johnson's Blue Skunk blog (http://doug-johnson.squarespace.com/blue-skunk-blog/2009/9/2/do-you-have-a-library-supervisor.html) , I was heartened to find that not every school system shares the attitude of the BCPSS.
Oh how I envy Guusje Moore!
I work in a Baltimore City public school. My students' innocence, and ignorance, are fiercely protected by the Bess Internet filter at its highest setting, meaning that neither teachers nor students can access Google Image search, free pages, blogs, Facebook, MySpace, YouTube or most commercial sites. I recognize the difficult situation school library supervisors are in, and applaud the bravery of those who choose to encourage guided exploration of the wide world of the World Wide Web rather than keeping them on intellectual lockdown during school hours. What they don't learn in school about the dangers of social networking and the Internet in general they must learn at great cost from unsupervised experimentation.
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Used carefully, the internet can help the curious to learn much more about almost any subject. Try the recent repairs on the Hubble Telescope. New images and video from the repaced cameras are arriving today. Wow! Haven't you wanted to be able to see the far reaches of space? Filters that block image search are too restrictive.
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