Ed.Tech@Lake Blog

So, we’re at our monthly computer meeting today and one of the facilitators tells us how the wikipedia HAS to be blocked! There’s a teacher who has her kids in the lab and a couple of them are making changes to the wikipedia and are going back and forth and writing inappropriate stuff.

So, we should BLOCK the Wikipedia because there are students who are not on task???  Where is the teacher? what are these kids supposed to be doing with their time in the lab? Are they in the lab because there was not another engaging and relevant activity for them to be completing???

Excuse me…..the Wikipedia must be used with caution and with understanding of what it IS and what it ISN’T.  But it ISN’T a game for kids to be “playing” when they are supposed to be doing something else.

This is NOT an issue of the merits of the Wikipedia! This is a classroom management issue.