How to request APS to block sites?
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Anonymous
| It's come to my attention that kids in MS and HS are having a Roblux and other online game resurgence. How can we get these sites blocked from their devices? My 10th grader told me they played during class last week with their teacher. What the heck? |
Anonymous
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Apparently the tech person at the school has admin rights for every kid’s device.
I’m considering asking ours to block YouTube for the rest of the year on my middle schooler’s device. |
Anonymous
YouTube is definitely an issue as well. |
Anonymous
Good luck. A lot of school assignments require watching YouTube videos. |
Anonymous
| We have gone through this at our son's APS middle school and very honestly no one cared. The teachers, tech person, admin...we just kept getting the response that our child isn't actually having any problems with his iPad usage, that they can't block sites because they may be needed (like youtube...they use it in class), and for the games, spotify, hulu/netflix, prime...some kids need their iPad to access those things as well. It was frustrating because just looking at our son's iPad usage, he's on it all day at school and his internet history shows he's watched complete movies and looked up all sorts of questionable content. Yes, we have spoken at length to him about that. But it seems like if your child pulls good grades and isn't disrupting the classroom, there's no problem. I guess that brings up the other issue: how are kids succeeding in that environment, but that's another thread. |
Anonymous
Curriculum like text books have a strong vetting process, random videos on youtube could be entirely incorrect and full of misinformation...what teacher's are using youtube?! |
Anonymous
They’re not using “random videos” for one thing. Also, “teachers” not “teacher’s” - perhaps a YouTube video on possessives would be helpful. |
Anonymous
Please, please tell me this is intended as a joke. Surely not ? |
Anonymous
| So a school can block something on an individual device, but why in the heck does the school system allow access to things like Roblox, Hulu, Netflix, Spotify? |
Anonymous
My seventh grader had YouTube videos to watch as part of studying for a science test! |
Anonymous
| If someone doesn’t understand why we’d use YouTube in assignments or lessons, then they aren’t aware of all the valuable content there. (I do realize there’s a lot of junk on it too.) |
Anonymous
It’s just a trade off. Yes, I’m sure there is “valuable content,” but the trade off is kids playing on YouTube whenever and you as a teacher having to spend your time monitoring their use instead of teaching. Which is happening more often in our middle schools? My child complains that whenever iPads come out kids are on YouTube or playing games. Some teachers just don’t let them take out their iPads for that reason. I don’t think the trade offs are worth it at this stage of their brain development. YouTube is highly addictive and the real golden nugget educational videos can be shown through other vehicles. |
Anonymous
You know you can download YouTube videos, right? The only reason to give unfettered access to YouTube is laziness. |
Anonymous
| I can get why something are not blocked. I do not understand why kids can't just get detention if they watch videos in class when they aren't supposed to. In my day and age (shakes cane) teachers used to walk back and forth around the classroom and kids got caught reading notes or books and got in trouble. That doesn't happen anymore, I guess? |
Anonymous
| Any info on how this stuff can get blocked on LCPS computers? |