The internet is a powerful learning tool and an integral part of most millennial students’ lives. I think internet filtering is necessary at all levels of schooling due to the proliferation of information, some appropriate, and much of it totally inappropriate for school age children. A student can innocently view inappropriate material by doing a simple search with a keyword that may be ambiguous. School administrators have to guard against this happening and the method of choice is internet filtering.
Additionally, there may be a tendency for students to use the computers at school for non-academic purposes such as social networking, downloading music or emailing. This can be avoided by blocking access to these types of sites.
There may be instances when students are unable to get information for legitimate research conducted at school. This is unfortunate but inevitable. In these cases the students will have to use an alternate method of getting her information.
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