Submitted by Justin (not verified) on January 28, 2008 - 18:17.
One way that I have found that students bypass filters is through the use of a flash memory stick. Students load Firefox or a similar bypassing browser on the memory stick and load the browser via the memory stick to the district computer. One way for teachers to get around this is to constantly monitor students on computers. It is a no brainer that students will do what they please if they know that the teacher is surfing the internet and not progress monitoring the activity at hand. Also, unsupervised computer labs are a cyber bullying playground. If teachers do not supervise their students, they will take advantage of the situation. If the students know that their teacher checks on them all the time and that their teacher has the technological skills to see if they have uploaded or downloaded images, they'll stay on task more often.
Students easily bypass filters
Submitted by Justin (not verified) on January 28, 2008 - 18:17.
One way that I have found that students bypass filters is through the use of a flash memory stick. Students load Firefox or a similar bypassing browser on the memory stick and load the browser via the memory stick to the district computer. One way for teachers to get around this is to constantly monitor students on computers. It is a no brainer that students will do what they please if they know that the teacher is surfing the internet and not progress monitoring the activity at hand. Also, unsupervised computer labs are a cyber bullying playground. If teachers do not supervise their students, they will take advantage of the situation. If the students know that their teacher checks on them all the time and that their teacher has the technological skills to see if they have uploaded or downloaded images, they'll stay on task more often.