Google Images in schools
11:55 am on the 28th of November, 2006Ewan writes today about access restrictions to certain websites in schools, about how the filtering systems is different in each school. He makes the point that there should be some sort of guidance to enable progress:
So what are the main issues halting progress?
1. Fear of…
* Inappropriate material
Yet, teachers will use Google Images (unmoderated by a community) instead of (the blocked) Flickr.Source: Ewan McIntosh, Dear Head of Education: Please don’t check my briefcase when I come to school
I came across this on my last placement. I was helping out a class in my last week that needed emergency cover. They were given a task of looking for examples of projects that they could make when they come to do their Craft Project in fourth year - looking for things like small tables, jewellery boxes, mirror stands, that sort of thing. I was told to use google images.
I didn’t have time to query if flickr was accessible, I would have first had to explain to the PT what flickr was, then explain to the pupils how to use it (it could have been the perfect lesson to introduce ideas about copyrighted material and how to find usable materials but that wasn’t what I had to get them to do).
Anyway, I got them sitting down infront of a pc and searching for images. A couple of them wanted to make snooker cue cases, ‘fine’ I said later to have a minor uprising when they discover one of the top results is of an injured 11 year old boy. I’ll not explain the injury, rather leave you to see it if you want. Google Search.
November 28th, 2006 at 6:40 pm on the 28th of November, 2006
Hi Stuart.
I am currently putting forward a proposal to the SMT in my school. I want to run an after hours CPD session on ‘Flickr’ and its uses. I am a Teacher of Biology. Last June, I was composing a PowerPoint on Meiosis (The production of sex cells). Very innocently, I typed in ‘sperm’ into Google images as I wanted an image of a sperm cell.
Well, I will not be doing that again. I am just glad that I did this before my pupils.
Have you heard of glow?
It has different filters for different subjects. See this post:
glow filters
Tess
November 28th, 2006 at 7:45 pm on the 28th of November, 2006
Hi Tess, I’ve been reading your blog since you started trialling Glow at Knox - you’re my only source of info about how it actually looks and feels.
I had read about the different filters but it had slipped my mind completely when I wrote this post so thanks for pointing it out again.
When I was in 6th year one of my friends was doing her Advanced Higher Modern Studies essay on prostitution tolerance zones, she caused quite a stir with the ICT co-ordinator when she started researching that at school!
November 28th, 2006 at 8:01 pm on the 28th of November, 2006
Yeah, other words to watch out for, when searching on ‘google’ are
‘Britney’ and ‘Swedish’
I car share at work. My colleagues mentioned these.
Off the cuff, if you have any spare time and are my side of the country, wanna see glow? (only the trial just now).
It would have to be after 4pm at Knox Academy.
Let me know.
Tess
November 28th, 2006 at 8:12 pm on the 28th of November, 2006
That would be great, I’m from Dunbar so I may be around sometime before the end of term. I’ll be in touch.
P.S. I removed your email address from your comment to save you hassle of spam, hope you don’t mind?
November 28th, 2006 at 8:16 pm on the 28th of November, 2006
No worries, it was a web forward email address that I use all the time. It can be deleted or changed if needs must.
Hope you can visit soon,
Tess
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