What is bandwidth? Bandwidth, in this case, is essentially the amount of Internet traffic that can flow in and out of a computer network. Every click to a website, every email you send or video you view takes up some degree of the overall bandwidth available on a network or Internet connection. The connection we have at Dakota Valley is shared between all users in the district.
What is the limit on bandwidth? We have a 10Mbps link, which was increased from 2Mbps two years ago. Most home Internet providers offer 1.5Mbps to 5Mbps. The larger the number of Mbps (megabits per second) translates to a larger “pipe” available to pass more data. Our link is a different than one you would have at home. Our Internet connection is also significantly more expensive as a result. We have certain guarantees with our service and upload /download bandwidth (speed, in some sense) that is not generally provided to home users. At home, the guarantee may be for downloads only (things coming to your computer) and the speed may be “throttled” or reduced after so many minutes of overuse. Some providers only guarantee a level of bandwidth to their own internal network and not the Internet itself.
What are we using on bandwidth? Of the “potentially abused” sites the top categories are Shopping, Sports and Games. Image searches and online videos also use a significant amount of bandwidth. Whether the video is on You Tube, MSNBC or ESPN it doesn’t make a difference as they all utilize bandwidth resources heavily. School uses are significant. DDN Campus, our library software, Alternative School software and many other curricular and school management programs are provided through our Internet connection. When bandwidth issues arise, many of these other ...
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...deo sites among others. This is a benefit many schools are not able to provide. Last year we would often peak at 70% usage. Going into this school year, it was known that we may “run out” of available bandwidth with the addition of the student laptops. Personal Relationships were blocked (myspace/facebook types of sites) as their role was deemed significantly more personal than work/school related. During peak use periods and during a time while many abusers were online attempting to watch movies, television shows and other non-school sites blocking became very restrictive in order to stabilize our connection. Most schools block all multimedia websites such as You Tube as a means to manage bandwidth. I honestly hope we don’t have to institute that level of blocking again, but it is certainly a possibility, especially if abuse or overuse becomes apparent once again.
There are over 2,405,518,376 internet users on a global scale. More than 50% of the world has a form of Internet censorship, and of those countries China, North Korea, Iran, and Vietnam heavily restrict its citizens. This recent topic has reached new heights in the US with the growing number of internet access. More and more people are debating whether the internet should be censored. Internet censorship is the control or suppression of what can be accessed, published, or viewed on the internet.
Constant internet interaction can advance to issues with paying attention, focusing, and resisting impulses. Clifford Noss says, “We’ve got a large and growing group of people who think the slightest hint that something interesting might be going on is like catnip. They can’t ignore it.” This leads to people simply interrupting their daily tasks, just to check their phones, thus causing them to be distracted and not get their work finished. This is a major reason we should participate in “Shut Down Your Screen Week.” Having all of these distractions out of the classroom would mold classes to run much more conveniently and
According to a web source titled “Students Use of Social Media As Free Speech and its Impact on PK-12 Public Schools,” a supreme court ruled that “...rights are limited where disruption and subversion to the good order of schools are at stake.” In other words, freedom of speech should be kept limited to avoid disruption and to keep the school operating in a more orderly manner. Disruption would come into play in the event of a student posting something online and it affecting someone or something during the school day. For instance, if someone posts something negative about a student, that student may continue to think about it all throughout their day and this would cause a disruption in the way that the student is concentrating and it could potentially affect learning for that particular student. Therefore, if social medial is limited these disruption can be avoided and it would help keep school more of a safe and orderly environment. Though, freedom of speech is important and it should be practiced it should be kept to a limit where the school system checks and balances out and no one or anything is being disrupted. In the case that this does happen, schools should take
The internet is a wonderful learning tool. Of course, like any good thing, the Internet comes with its ups and downs. There are several things that aren’t suitable for any child on the internet, such as pornography, violent material, adult chat rooms, and racist or hateful sites, there are even websites about cheating in schools.
The internet is a vast network of computers that connects many of the world’s businesses, institutions, and individuals. It allows millions of people throughout the world to send and receive messages to each other, share information, and play games (Naughton 4). It was initially designed to aid the government and help people expand academically, but it is now becoming more commercialized and used in ways that it was not made for.
There are many teachers that play nice and let students get away with it. These students end up being a distraction to the teacher and class. Teachers need to be able to do their job professionally by controlling these situations properly. Schools need to enforce a policy that controls this. “Large institutions were more likely than any other size to have individual units with their own social media policies: 15.7% of all unique large institutions, but 5% or less for institutions of all other sizes. This is likely due to the fact that large institutions are more likely than smaller to be divided up into units that operate semi-independently, such as colleges, schools, or medical facilities. The fact that “very large” institutions did not have policies at the same rate is likely an artifact of the Carnegie Classification data file, as very large institutions are exclusively 2-year institutions – and as discussed above, 2-year institutions are less likely to have social media policies.” (Sources 2 Campus Units with Social Media Policy’s) When signing up for a high school class, you are signing up for it to complete it as a general requirement to graduate, not to use it for social media. A school has always been a public place for learning, not a social media hangout location. Schools need to continue to promote this definition to demonstrate what they were built for. By doing this, schools can lead a good example in keeping students less
The Internet has affected our lives in a considerable way. We use the internet in order to connect with society, look up information for work and educational purposes, shop, handle daily errands such as paying bills and so on. Children are not excluded from this, in fact they are capable of using internet more effectively than adults. The reason for this being that chıldren are able to learn to use new technology faster than theır adult counterparts. It is wıdely accepted that having internet connection can be very useful for children, teachers and children consider internet as a powerful tool to access to academic sources to research for theır classes and homework (Ofcome, 2007). Also having the internet is perceived as an good opportunity for children to meet new people and keep up with their friends. This is true if children use internet in a proper way. However, there is a possibility that they can encounter inappropriate materials even while searching for educational information or trying to relax with games. Violent scenes and uncensored sexual material cause serious damage for childhood development, as they can cause children to be aggressive and lonely adults. The first solution for protecting children from these harms is internet blocking and filtering programs. Although they come to forefront by means of their easy usage properties, most of the time filtering programs cannot provide an overall coverage from the internet’s harm. Therefore, parents should have involved in this process by monitoring and helping their children. Moreover media lessons which inform students about the internet’s harm can be very helpful for children.
The definition of the Internet put in one sentence is: A worldwide network of computer networks that use the TCP/IP network protocols to facilitate data transmission and exchange, where anyone with a computer can access the internet through an ISP (Internet Service Provider).
I believe that World Wide Web restrictions should not be allowed. I believe that they are not helpful to the people that use the World Wide Web. I feel that the restrictions on the World Wide Web at school are too strict. At school most sites you try to view are prohibited and they are totally harmless sites. I feel that at school the only restrictions that should be put on the World Wide Web are restrictions to pornographic sites. Even these sites should not be blocked because some harmless sites have web addresses that would seem like a pornographic site but end up being a totally harmless site. With the block at school some of these harmless sites are blocked and therefor limiting the web user who made need information from sites like these. Most students know better than to visit pornographic sites at school. So this block that forbids students to visit most sites just hurts the students learning ability in some cases. There should not be a block on the World Wide Web at school and if a student does visit a pornographic site then they should be prosecuted or disciplined.
Students ignoring school rules and policies students operating online often times forget the school rules and policies as they often times do not make the connection with social media and the school and the fact that anything posted on social media tools does have an impact on the school. There is also the risk of students posting things on social media sites that can have a negative impact on them in the future. For e...
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Internet is computers network connected around the World via dedicated servers. When your computer is connected to the internet you can send, received all kinds of information such as text, graphics, voice, programs and video.
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Internet needs to be in the classrooms of schools in the new millennium. If you can’t get on and surf the internet by yourself then you are looked down upon. The internet is the new big thing, it’s technology at it’s best. That’s why we must keep our students in schools educated and updated with it, the internet has endless possibilities. Students would never run out of information for their reports in school, they can either go to the library and look for the information they need and hope that the book they need is not checked out, which could take up to a couple of hours. While on the internet you can find the information in the matter of minutes. Many books are outdated and you would be lucky to check one out if everybody in the class is doing the same report! The internet keeps up with current information coming in every day of the week. I don’t think students abusing their time on the internet is a problem, I think we need teachers or someone to monitor where they are going on the internet. There are programs advisors can download that can block out any material not suitable for students at schools.
A good idea would be to have students visit Cyberethics for Kids, at the Web site of the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section (CCIPS) of the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. Teachers are charged with maintaining a safe environment in their classroom. Students (and parents) expect the teacher to provide protection from exposure to danger of any kind. While students are working online in a classroom/lab environment, the teacher should be alert and always in a position to know what students are up to at their stations. Students won 't try to get away with things if they know they 're likely to get caught. Filtering, which involves blocking Web sites that have been deemed unacceptable for children, is not by any means a completely effective solution to the problem of objectionable material on the Web. Not only are filters vulnerable to being circumvented -- accidentally or on purpose "got around" -- filters also too often block Web sites that are perfectly acceptable, leaving teachers frustrated when they plan to use such sites for