The fourth annual Banned Websites Awareness Day makes excessive filtering an intellectual freedom issue in K–12 learning.
ALA Report Confirms Negative Impact of Filtering on Student Learning
By on June 25, 2014
“Fencing out Knowledge: Impacts of the Children’s Internet Protection Act 10 Years Later” concludes that institutions using filtering software in order to receive certain federal funds routinely block more content than required, depriving students of access to information and collaborative tools.
What’s Not to ‘Like’? Rethinking Restrictive Social Media Policies
By on March 10, 2014
Most schools have highly regulated Internet policies that don’t address the productive use of social media by students. It’s time to revisit these rules.
CIPA at 10: Internet Filtering Excessive, Study Finds | ALA Midwinter Meeting
By on February 10, 2014
A decade after the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) went into effect, its implementation in schools and public libraries is problematic and the scale of Internet filtering is excessive, panelist said during the ALA Midwinter session “Revisiting The Children’s Internet Protection Act: 10 Years Later.”
What to Do When Kids Aren’t Allowed to Read Digital Books in School
By on September 16, 2012
Pat Scales, chair of the American Library Association’s Intellectual Freedom Committee and SLJ columnist, regularly fields questions on banned library materials. But “this is the first I’ve encountered in which a book’s format has been censored,”…
