You know one thing that is a real problem in online learning, is porn. That is why school districts are so reluctant to open their minds to more open collaboration and social networks. Not only has the Internet made porn readily available to anyone and almost everyone who wants to find it, it has created a new generation of people willing and able to bare everything to anyone! Sexting on teenager’s phones seems like fun and totally harmless to them.
The moral disintegration that has seeped into our world has made a prolific problem of sexual addicts who go to porn for self-gratification. This not only harms them individually, it hurts and breaks up family relationships, causes some to be sexual predators, and can totally ruin people’s self-esteem and life.
I am all for great filters, and have a pretty good one at my house. Sure, it causes problems when I can’t pull up a picture of a rainbow for a project, but it is so totally worth it to me to have the blocks in place. So, I can understand schools’ hesitation to relax their blocking standards. Unfortunately there is always opposition in all things; the good always comes with the bad.
What do you think? Is it ever going to be possible to get social networking sites unblocked in our schools? What suggestions do you have to solve the problem?
