http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2012/11/21/165485240/know-what-your-kids-do-online-there-s-an-app-for-that
Read or listen to this story from NPR about parents watch their kids internet usage. What do you thing is the right way for parents to watch their kids internet activities? How much should the teachers be watching for at school?
http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2012/11/21/165485240/know-what-your-kids-do-online-there-s-an-app-for-that
11 Comments
Brittanee Jacobs
11/30/2012 04:48:30 am
I think these applications and programs are a little too extreme. Parents should not be screening every text message, phone call, e-mail, and Facebook interaction. However, they should be monitoring the websites their children are using in order to keep them safe. This goes for teachers as well. They should make sure their students are not visiting inappropriate or unsafe websites. But, they shouldn't sift through every single e-mail and read conversations between students, unless these are potentially harmful to others.
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Kristi Harms
11/30/2012 09:57:37 am
I think it is too extreme to have parents or teachers monitoring every email, text message, website, etc that their children or students create, send or view. Children need to be taught responsibility and part of that is trust in what they are using their technology resources for. Children need to be taught what is appropriate and how to handle situations that could be harmful to them. Until the child/student shows they have misused the technology available to them then they should be given the freedom to expolore and utilize the resources available to them. If children are taught what is right and wrong and how to use the responsibility that comes with using technology then they should be trusted and allowed to have technology freedom.
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Aaron Schroeder
11/30/2012 10:20:38 am
I think all things should be subject to parental or school observation at any given moment. This does not mean that this big brother activity has to be kept up at all times, but it should be open for review at any time.
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Igor Misljenovic
11/30/2012 02:36:40 pm
Using software to track internet activities is not necessarily a bad thing, it is already being done by companies and there is a market for consumer data which many people do not know exists (http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/collusion/). Blog posts, twitter feeds and facebook statuses are there for public consumption by default which means if it is an inappropriate status/post and a parent, supervisor or teachers sees it there is nobody to blame but yourself; it probably shouldn’t have been up there in the first place (just like you shouldn’t be yelling obscenities in a crowded room). On the other hand, reading emails and inbox messages goes to a touchier field of privacy intrusion; for me it is like eavesdropping and our parents teach us from a young age that is not polite. In my opinion, only participants of private correspondences have the right to make the correspondence public (court orders for surveillance are a different matter in and of itself).
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Becky Rose
11/30/2012 10:35:32 pm
What do you think is the right way for parents to watch their kids' internet activities? How much should the teachers be watching for at school?
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Michelle Unnerstall
12/1/2012 05:23:41 am
I think sites should be monitored at school and home by parents and teachers. There are many dangerous people on the internet. If I was a parent, I would want to know what my children are doing. I would sometimes look closely at what they are saying, but maybe not read everything. I would at least want to know who they are talking to and what websites they go on. I have to be able for them to learn responsiblity and give them trust. hard question!
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Angie Richardson
12/1/2012 11:17:53 pm
I think that children/students should be subject to monitoring at any time by parents as well as by teachers. As a parent I feel it is my responsibility to be my child's parent first and their friend last. It is my job to keep them safe. As a teacher I feel the same way. I need to stay on top of trends/things in the classroom and monitoring Internet activity/email is a great way to do just that.
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Lauren Robb
12/2/2012 03:28:08 am
This is a little too harsh if you ask me. If parents are going to this extreme by screening every text message, email, facebook post or tweet then clearly the parent has absolutely no trust in their child, which is sad. I believe it is ok to check the general websites your child uses but you don't have over analyze everything little thing. At school I think facebook and twitter should be banned in the first place but same goes for teachers, I think they should monitor the internet use as a whole by screening the websites not so much each individual email of post of some sort. To me this is all a trust issue.
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Mike Tzianos
12/2/2012 09:48:45 am
These applications mentioned in the article are excessive. Parents should monitor sites that their children may visit. I think that individual messages may me monitored if there are concerns. Teachers at school should do the same as far as monitoring sites that students can visit. Teachers can also educate students about internet safety. If parents start to monitor every single thing that their child does then the trust relationship between parent and child diminishes. Then the child might want to act devious even more than before.
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Daniel Simmons
12/2/2012 09:50:59 pm
Although these practices do seem extreme, they are also effective. To me parents need to have a constant hand in what their children are doing on the internet. i would prefer to be over bearing, opposed to letting my child put themselves in the way of risk. I believe the greatest tool parents could have in protecting their kids, is educating them. Along with education children locks or buffers should be placed on sites parents feel are unsafe. When it comes to a child's safety, there is not such thing as too extreme, or too safe.
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Lauren Noble
12/2/2012 11:49:56 pm
I do believe that teachers and parents need to be monitoring their children and students computer usage and internet usage. There's so much stuff on the internet that these young kids don't understand that it can hurt them emotionally or physically if they are not careful. Schools should have a monitoring system and block certain websites while they are at school. At school computers should only be used for learning purposes. At home it's up to the parents what they want to block. Maybe give them a time limit while on the internet or to make sure they aren't getting themselves into bad situations by talking to strangers in chat rooms or on media websites.
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