In the last post, I said that I had contemplated sending the article Do Internet Filters Undermine the Teaching of 21st Century Citizenship? to the Superintendent. Well...I did it.
What resulted was a series of forwarded emails to other people in the technology department, followed by a lot of non-responsive emails for meeting dates, a blurb in our county's Communicator about the importance of webfiltering, a one-on-one with the super, a sit down with an assistant super and tech rep, and, ultimately, me getting what I wanted.
That shouldn't sound as boastful as I think it does, but I'm just glad that I can update or install software on teacher computers and can unblock educational material that teachers are struggling to access because of the filters. In situations like these, I think of a saying that I hear a lot around here: I have to do what's best for the students.
I think teaching with 21st century technology is part of that.
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