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Group 3 JAEKYUNG PARK SUNGHOON JUNG MATT Hillix


 * Plan for Filtering

Filtering AUP server which is a server for the district. The AUP was recommended by the district technology coordinator, in the school for ealry age stuent is still controversal issue. between freedom of using Internet service and preventing uneducated website for early age student. this issue is becoming on hot issue on bloomingtown school. Here is a case.. Last year, the Bloomingtown School Board of Education passed an Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) for the district. The AUP was recommended by the district technology coordinator, who put it together after a model AUP which he had obtained on the web. He made sure the Board would understand that all schools should have such a policy, and they agreed. The policy passed without much discussion. As a result, it isn't very well known by either teachers or parents that this policy is in effect. ([|http://www.emunix.emich.edu/~ehoffman/edmt330/bloomsim.html])

However, it is a still a controvesy issue between the freedom of children and education purpose in school.

Here is the question that "Is the school' AUP adequate as it has been implemented in dealing with this issue? should the school do more and put filteres in place? if yes, on all computers? At all times?

On this issue, Group 3( JK Park, SUNGHOON JUNG, MATT Hillix) basically think that

we agree to use AUP server in the school. However, it has regulations. such as we agree to put AUP server in early age kids who are between Kindergarden to 8th grade of school. it is because they are too young to control the harmful internet service.

but we do want to allow students who are from 9th grade to 12thgrade. It is because they are in age who has to know their responsibility. they need to know how to handle the Internet service on their own responsibility.

For those reasons, we partly agree to use AUP server in education institution.

Filter K-8 kids Filtering for kids under K-8 is necessary. First, they are so innocent. They could believe anything in the internet. They will probably think it's okay to do same thing because people in the internet can do it. Their moral value has not been fully established. They do not know what is right or wrong. They would not know what they did was improper and cause some trouble.

Second, they are not educated enough to control their own life. They do not know some acts would cause their hole life or others. They do not know the importance of sex control device. They do not know the importance of the devices. They are not prepared yet to see everything in internet.

Last, most kids do not think about their future. If they think about their future, they would not do some improper behaving. They would be more responsible for their behavior because they think about the consequence of their acts. However, most kids don't think about their future, it is unlikely to be responsible for their acts. They need to be more mature to be allowed to access all data in the internet.

Not filter 9-12 (Matt Hillix)

Internet Usage Guidelines for students in grades 9-12 While as a group we decided it was necessary for internet filtering to be implemented for Bloomington students in grades ranging from kindergarden to 8th grade we feel that High School students in grades 9-12 deserve unrestricted and unfiltered access to the internet. The reasoning behind this is that filtration actually often restricts important information from being found and doing so is detrimental to the student. For example, under the current filtration system social networks such as Facebook or Ning are completely unreachable. This is simply ridiculous, social networks are a useful, and completely harmless, tool for students which allows them to communicate with their fellow classmates on activities ranging from coordinating group projects to finding a prom date. Current filtration systems are suitable for younger students who need more direct observation but are a hindrance to older students who use the internet on a frequent basis. My group proposes a new internet usage policy for Bloomington school that will be incorporated into the schools honor code and disciplinary statutes. The new policy will give unrestricted internet access to computers located in 9th-12th grade classrooms and in computer labs located in 9th-12th grade buildings. Before being eligible to use the unrestricted access students must sign an agreement detailing the proper exclusions, (no pornographic sites, no hate sites) and their disciplinary consequences. I believe this system is the best way for Bloomington School administration to strike a balance between keeping our students safe and not withholding valuable information from them.

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