Abstract
Filters in schools: A Policy disturbed
20th Annual Postgraduate Research Community Conference Book of Abstracts, pp.30-31
Annual Postgraduate Research Community Conference: Charting educational futures: Building on 20 years of research, 20th (Brisbane, Australia, 05-Aug-2015)
2015
Abstract
Web filtering and device monitoring is a relatively new and significant player in the learning and teaching landscape in public schools across Australia. In particular, Queensland Government espouses to use web filtering and device monitoring to manage and control the use of computers and the Internet during school time to increase the efficiency, effectiveness, access and use of 'core business' applications such as 'The Learning Place', a government designed/authorized online learning environment. This presentation presents data collected from a Queensland high school to consider the (im)practicality of curating 'safe' digital learning environments via web filtering/device monitoring policies. Actor Network Theory (ANT) is used as a critical sensibility to enable an undoing/disturbing of the taken for granted assumptions around web filtering in schools as a natural, uncontested and productive practice in 21 century classrooms and offers an opening to (re)consider the ethical implications of technology mediated learning environments.
Details
- Title
- Filters in schools: A Policy disturbed
- Authors
- Theresa Ashford (Author) - University of Queensland
- Publication details
- 20th Annual Postgraduate Research Community Conference Book of Abstracts, pp.30-31
- Conference details
- Annual Postgraduate Research Community Conference: Charting educational futures: Building on 20 years of research, 20th (Brisbane, Australia, 05-Aug-2015)
- Publisher
- University of Queensland
- Date published
- 2015
- Organisation Unit
- School of Social Sciences - Legacy; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Law and Society
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99450425502621
- Output Type
- Abstract
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