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Deleting Online Predators Act - R.I.P.
elearning 2.0 writes "It looks like the Deleting Online Predators Act (DOPA) has died a slow death. DOPA was proposed during the height of last year's moral panic around the issue of child safety and sites like MySpace. The legislation would have banned the use of commercial social networking websites in US schools and libraries which receive federal IT funding — therefore undermining much of the pioneering work being done by educators in the e-learning 2.0 space."
e-learning 2.0 space
In any just society, whoever wrote that would swing next to Saddam, Idi Amin, and the guy who invented clamshell packaging.
therefore undermining much of the pioneering work being done by educators in the e-learning 2.0 space
Banning MySpace is undermining much of the pioneering work of what?
I must be missing something.
We will see it again just in time for the 2008 campaign cause theres nothing like flashing the mug shots of creepy old men across the tv with ominous music while stating that ur opponent supports child predators.
Not only is elearning 2.0 a really poor attempt at piggybacking the Web 2.0 buzzword trend, the submitter seems to have some sort of investment in it as well (look at the name). E-learning 2.0 seems to be teaching using so-called Web 2.0 sites and tools, which is a good concept, but not one that needs its own buzzword. Why not just call it online learning or online social education, as those are more descriptive? Let's lay off the stupid buzzwords (Web 2.0, E-Learning 2.0, etc).
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. --Winston Churchill
WARNING: You have exceeded your buzzword quota for the day. Any future buzzword emissions will result in fines from the EPA.
Insisting on "correct" English is like saying that there is only one, definitive recipe for chili.
Parents need to start financing their own kids rather than expecting the rest of us to pay for them - via taxes for the salaries of politicians to make this unnecessary rubbish up.
Gentoo Linux - another day, another USE flag.
Aside from the obvious problems with the sentence "pioneering work being done by educators in the e-learning 2.0 space", how does banning myspace et. al. prevent learning? Are teachers seriously encouraging kids to get on myspace during class time for educational purposes?
I don't see anything wrong with banning social network sites inside school libraries. Wikipedia, Nasa, etc. are legitimate learning sites, I don't see how myspace compares to these.
There are 2 kinds of people in this world. Those that can keep their train of thought,
"e-learning 2.0"? Is this a subset of Web 2.0?
This is where one can leverage their synergies to create new paradigms while using colored parachutes to find out who moved their cheese.
Where does the school board find them and why do they keep sending them to ME?
What's worse: my boss (like many I'm sure) actually falls for the buzzword of the week.
We'll bring in one group doing demo or webex of some software product, and they'll claim that their product does "Super hyper-relative process optimization". It'll be some common-sense obvious crap that they decided to tag that name onto.
The bad part comes when Vendor #2 comes in and demo's their product. He'll (with a straight and shockingly confident face) raise his hand in the middle and ask "Does this support Super hyper-relative process optimization?". When they have no idea what he's talking about he's already looking at me like "OMG. They don't even do super hyper-relative process optimization. Why did you even let these people in the door?". About this time I'm ready to just shake my head in embarrassment.
"People who think they know everything are very annoying to those of us who do."-Mark Twain
I'd like to see you say that to my face, buddy. I'll pop you right in the jaw. We speak English in these parts.
-- Too lazy to get a lower UID.
Yeah. Like that is going to accomplish much.
They'll find other ways to waste time.
The problem is that the whole approach is wrong. If you want to prevent Students surfing on Myspace using School Equipment, make sure they have something to lose. But our society is no longer able to hand out a "YOU SUCK, GET TO WORK DAMMIT" to children and students who don't do their job right.
You can't prevent by banning every distraction they find - you have to motivate them by making sure there are consequences when you're bad at school. Encouraging at first, but if you're no good, you get disqualified and can start flipping burgers. No need to waste money on people who don't try to learn.
And the whole predator perspective is just stupid. Honestly. You can't rape or harass people over the internet. You can't damage them.