This U.S. government report on the use of technology to protect schoolchildren from harmful content, though it does cite a measure of satisfaction with the products, recognizes that technological measures alone will not solve the problem. "Commenters emphasized that technology protection measures are most effective when teachers and educational institutions can customize technology and use it in connection with other strategies and tools" Additionally, "NTIA made two recommendations: (1) additional training on the full use of technology protection measures, and (2) new legislative language that would clarify CIPA’s existing 'technology protection measure' language to ensure that technology protection measures include more than just blocking and filtering technology." Additionally, the authors observe that there should be more local control over the implementation of technological measures.
CRLFIt is interesting to read Distance-Educator.Com's interpretation of the report. It paints a much more positive picture, giving the impression, not really justified by the report's contents, that technology actually will solve the problem. I suspect that Distance-Educator's coverage is based on the press release, but of course the link (to what - PR NewsWire?) is not provided. A reading of the report provides a much more nuanced view, as I describe above. I think it's time Distance-Educator.Com stopped quoting word-for-word from unattributed sources, and started properly indicating source and context. This coverage is very misleading, and it's not the first time. At the very least, it would be nice were they to actually read the resources they pass along to prevent this sort of misinterpretation.
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