According to US officials, Navy SEALs found a large stash of pornography at the Pakistani compound of Osama bin Laden, and the stash has been described as 'modern' and 'fairly extensive.' Bin Laden's Abbottabad compound did not have Internet connection or other hard-wired communication networks, but officials did find hundred's of flash drives, and I bet that's how OBL snuck in the porn, which he then watched on TV's that we know were equipped with the ability to show video (there are video's out there of him watching himself on TV).
To build up such an extensive and modern stash of porn takes a lot of time, I imagine, and this would perfectly explain why we haven't heard a whole lot out of him since 9/11. He fled into a hole for a while before eventually settling into a dirty ugly compound where he spent his days paying couriers to bring in modern pornography for him to watch. Case closed- we know know exactly what OBL has been doing for the past 10 years.
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Let Freedom Ring! (Guest Post from a teacher in China)
"They are afraid and so it is easier to block access to any area that might cause a problem than to investigate and fight for solutions that are workable. It is easier to hide behind the Great American Education Firewall."
Heather Davis, teacher in China
LET FREEDOM RING?
Guest Post by Teacher, Heather Davis
During the last week in February I was privileged to attend the Flat Classroom Conference at BISS in Beijing led by Vicki Davis and Julie Lindsay. The fact that I live in Beijing made it doubly exciting as I was looking forward to people whom I respect and have influenced my thinking coming to see this incredible city and get a better understanding of China.
What no one could plan for were the challenges that were going to be faced due to the crack down by the government on areas that we as expats use to allow us to access information. While I know it made producing the conference much more difficult it also provided the attendees with an opportunity to experience life behind the Great Firewall of China.
During the month of February and still ongoing, life has been getting more challenging as freedoms we have taken for granted such as the ability to work around the firewall when we purchase a VPN, the easy use of most things Google and my regular banking practices have drastically changed. I did not realize how much value these things had and how important they were in making my life easier and acceptable until I lost them.
When I first arrived in China in 2004 I could easily access You Tube, Facebook, iTunes and any blog. Occasionally, they would be restricted for a few hours or at most a week but they would return. Then there was the 2008 uprising in Tibet and everything was blocked as the government realized it could not control the release of information with these tools and Twitter easily accessible. They were blocked and we now understand it is permanent.
I accept these restrictions to a certain extent because I am choosing to live in a foreign country that has a different worldview and ethical system from my home country of Canada. While I don’t like living behind the Great China Firewall I do intellectually understand why it is there and accept that as long as I choose to live here my freedom to access all available information on any subject will be limited by a government who controls the information their citizens can receive.
What I can’t understand though is how easily so many American educators are accepting the loss of freedom to access information within settings where providing the ability discover information and then make educated decisions and choices should be the driving force.
I have just recently completed my Masters degree with an American university and I was astounded to realize how prevalent filtering or in reality blocking is in American schools. What bothered me more was the total acceptance by the teachers that this was a positive and acceptable practice. I vehemently argued against it and for the most part my comments were not well received at all, except by the professor and I think he may have wanted to encourage dialogue. What right did a Canadian teacher who was teaching internationally in China have to disagree with standard operating procedure in the majority of US school districts? How could I possibly understand the problems?
I was also amazed at how much passion I felt on this subject until I began to compare what was happening in the school systems to the Firewall I daily live behind. The educators did not seem to grasp the significance of the loss of freedom of choice and information. It was difficult to deal with.
I know all the arguments – We must protect our students from the negative parts of the Internet because they are too young and impressionable to make these decisions. How have restrictions ever provided teaching moments? I have heard them over and over and yet it seems to me that the bottom line is not one of protection of the students’ minds but protection of school districts pocket books. They are afraid and don’t want to be sued and cause problems with the bottom line figures. They are afraid and so it is easier to block access to any area that might cause a problem than to investigate and fight for solutions that are workable. It is easier to hide behind the Great American Education Firewall.
My questions are these - How can the citizens of the most powerful nation in the world take away freedom so easily from its young people and not see this is a problem? How long will the brave teachers and administrators who encourage access continue to have the will to fight the fight? How long will they be allowed to do so before they are also put behind the firewall? All things considered I think I would rather deal with the firewall in China.
Heather Davis
@toadie1951
http://teachlesslearnmore.edublogs.org/
Flat Classroom Certified Teacher Class of 2011-1
April 5, 2011
With permission, I am posting this blog post from an email that I received from teacher in China, Heather Davis. She has given me full permission to post this here and list her full name. Yes, that makes me nervous (China has been cracking down on many bloggers) but I will respect her desire to speak a message to the heart of all teachers - especially those here in America.
This isn't about filtration. Keeping pornography out of school is required by our laws. This is about OVERFILTRATION and a lack of ability to request URLs to be unblocked. Is there a procedure that teachers can use to get sites unblocked efficiently that is approved by CURRICULUM. The sites we use should pretty much be driven by CURRICULUM - not IT .
Do we care about the recent US study that actually showed that the two biggest obstacles to the integration of emerging technology are filtration and the ban on cell phones? I was discussing with my friend Stephen Windwalker (Kindle Nation Daily) and he said something that stuck with me -
"Most kids will be making their living creating web content, not writing novels."We've got work to do and need to roll up our sleeves and start using some plain old common sense to make up for the shortfall in our pocketbooks. We can't have everything but we can have something. And we can do many things with the free things we can use in our schools - it is just a matter of typing the URL into the whitelist feature of our firewall - and as someone who does this every day - it isn't such a big deal.
Here's to you, Heather - you are truly an inspiration to me and represent everything good in a teacher and leader. I have taken the liberty to put a few things I think are very important in red. Keep up the great work.
Vicki Davis
The Case for Digital Citizenship in Schools
Image via WikipediaThe Dealia's swimsuit catalog came in the mail for my teenage daughter and I handed it to my youngest son and asked him to take it to her. He padded in the den and I heard him say,
"Here's your bathing suit catalog, sis. Pick something that won't scar me for life!"
Scarred for life? lol. Hmmmm. Not a joke if I think about it.
Scarred for Life.
As I listened to my book on iPod and cleaned the kitchen, I started thinking that that is what is happening to many of today's teens.
We have driver's education because we want to protect kids from themselves. A car is a powerful machine and can kill.
We have sex education because we want to protect children as well. Sex is a very intimate thing that shouldn't be taken lightly. Sex can also kill if one contracts various STD's.
Cell phones and the Internet are powerful vehicles. Yet parents give kids cell phones like they are the latest gadget, ignoring what can happen if a child makes a childish mistake. They can be scarred for life.
Driver's education cannot stop accidents among teenagers - but well done - it can reduce them.
Sex education cannot stop sex among teenagers but it can prevent STD's and have students take it more seriously.
Digital citizenship education cannot STOP the headlines of people who do scarring things through improper use of their technology but I believe it can reduce them.
Margarite's Mistake
In the Saturday New York Times Article "A Girl's Nude Photo, and Altered Lives" ( a story we'll be talking about in Digiteen this week), Margarite is an eighth grader who posed nude in her mirror and sent the picture of herself to a popular athlete, Isaiah.
Isaiah forwarded this to a former friend of Margarite's who then forwarded it to every contact in her cell phone with the message:
"Ho Alert! If you think this girl is a whore, then text this to all your friends."
Pressed Send.
The video went viral and through four middle schools. When parents started calling in to complain, the Middle school principal at one school launched the investigation that led to the confiscation of student cell phones and three students being charged with dissemination of child pornography (a class C felony.)
The county prosecutor, Mr. Peters said, "The idea of forwarding that picture was bad enough," he said, "But the text elevated it to something far more serious. It was mean-girl drama, an all-out attempt to destroy someone without thinking about the implications."
As other kids left school to go home at the end fo the day, Isiah and Margarite's former friend were led off in handcuffs.
Scarred for life.
The article goes on to say that sexting (between adults) is protected first amendment speech and that many magazines are giving tips on "how to look good" in sexting photos. However, as many as 24 % of 14-17 year olders have been involved in "some type of naked sexting." (AP & MTV Poll - PDF)
Forwarding such photos can land you in jail.
Don't Freak Out, Fan Out
I think that banning cell phones and removing them from schools is NOT the right answer. You might as well dam the Mississippi in a few weeks during flood season. See if that will hold!
It would be like banning cars because too many kids die in traffic accidents. Not realistic. We have to co-exist with cars because they are part of our society and the way we get around.
Banning cell phones is not realistic. We must co-exist with cell phones because they are part of our society and the way we communicate.
When someone lost an earring in the grass the other day - we all took a small space and fanned out to find the earring and eventually did.
Likewise, we should all take the "plot of ground" assigned to us. Our classroom. Our Home. Our school. Our community.
We can't do it all but we can do something.
Don't Lecture, Learn.
This should be treated a lot like driver's education which does have a bit of classroom work but a lot of time IN a car navigating the spaces. If a kid is going to have a problem with a left turn or parallel parking you want them to have it under supervision so it is not scarring for life.
The final example from Facebook Friending 101 for Schools (about the student I named "Zipper) that I posted on Friday is from one of our Flat Classroom projects. (I did change the names.) The teachable moment that I discussed in that case study transformed our our kids and they all went in and changed their privacy settings.
Digital Citizenship in Situ
That is why I think effective digital citizenship education is done WHILE students are using educational networks (social networks for education) and cell phones. In fact, that is why we founded Digiteen and spun it off as a nonprofit - because we felt like the kids who came in to Flat Classroom weren't ready because they were clueless about managing their personal identity in safe, wise ways!
Kids DON'T get it, but neither do adults. We are learning as we go.
In fact, I received a SCATHING commenter accusing me of not knowing Facebook privacy settings because she says she has set lists to:
"I friend students. I also have a specific list just for them. This list is restricted so that they can't see:
- any of my default wall posts (unless I specifically select my "students" list, but even then when I post to that one, I ONLY post to students, so that my other friends can't see it)
- anything anyone posts on my wall
- any of my photo albums except for the one of my profile pics
- anyone on my friends list (you can even restrict that, it's just on the privacy screen under "Connecting on Facebook" rather than "Sharing on Facebook")
- any pages or anything else that I "like""
Now, I've got it on my personal PD list this week to check this out and learn if this is indeed the case. Furthermore, I want to test it and see if it actually works that way. I value commenters that let me know that there is more to be told.
(Of course this commenter didn't do it in a very nice way and that, I feel was poor citizenship, but onwards and upwards - if we cannot learn from those who are unkind to us, then we are letting our emotions restrict our learning potential - aren't we? So, my friends, don't let your emotions on this topic cause you to make a decision not to learn either.)
If I wasn't on Facebook and wasn't blogging - how would I know? It is a MISTAKE to ignore Facebook. You should all also know how to send and receive text messages.
Case Study: Who is Mij Cosby?
I've changed this name because we don't really know if this is a real person or not. However, last week as my class and I were brainstorming our action project for Digiteen, a student said - we need to talk about friending because "WHO IS MIJ COSBY?"
I asked - WHAT?
He said -
"There is this girl over in an adjacent county who has no friends at her own school but who has asked to FRIEND every student at Westwood. I won't friend Mij because I don't know who it is."
We talked for some time and everyone in the class but one person (who said he needed a lot of friends) unfriended Mij because they realized that NO ONE knew who it was.
But I left the question on the board and didn't think another thing about it. My tenth graders came in and saw the board and several shouted out
"WHO is Mij Cosby? I mean really, Mrs. Vicki, who is it?"
They too had been friended - such was the whole day!! We don't know who this is, but what we found out happened is that this person was able to get about 5 kids to friend at our school and then everyone started friending Mij. In 2-3 days at least 50+ kids (that I counted) had friended Mij and NO ONE knew the person!
They admitted that they look to see how many mutual friends they have and then decide if they should friend or not.
Almost all of the students unfriended Mij because we cannot find ONE student in the whole school who knows her. NOT ONE. We don't even know if there is a family in that county of 2800 people with that last name! We think Mij is a fake.
And yet, several kids didn't want to unfriend. ("But I want to have a lot of friends, Mrs. Vicki.") And many didn't want to make their pages Friends only -- some have it set to public. ("I want people to know who I am.")
This live in-situ case study that happened because we were talking about what to DO about digital citizenship caused around 90+% of my students to change their behavior - at least for now. That did more to help them understand friending than anything else. Facebook is unblocked at school (at least for now) so they took action RIGHT THEN.
Get them talking and acting and learning and doing!
Time to Take Action
- Does your school have to end up on the cover of the New York Times for you to take seriously the need for digital citizenship education?
- Do you know that problems WILL happen and they will be WORSE if you ignore this issue?
- Do you think lecture from a fear-based uneducated un-social-media-wise adult is actually going to change anything? Do you want a person without a driver's license who doesn't own a car teaching drivers ed? Get someone who uses this stuff and can relate to kids to lead them in educated discussions - or join something like Digiteen.
- Do you think you have to find a place for this before you do it? We do what is important.
- Do you think educating parents on proactive ways to help will do more than scaring them into taking away cell phones? Cell phones are the identity of many kids. Face it.
- The best defense is a good offense. Are you going to be proactive or reactive? Which will paint you as more of a leader? Be a visionary, that is your job.
- What are you doing? Share.
And also remember this, I'm bringing attention to social media in schools because it is IMPORTANT. I will continue to talk about this and share what I know - but if I don't know something (and there is tons I don't know) please feel free to shoot me an email at vicki at coolcatteacher dot com and teach me something. ;-)
You are great readers and sharers. Thank you.
NEA Speaks: Children Need to Be More Sexualized and Exposed to Graphic Sex Earlier
Diane Schneider represented the National Education Association (NEA), the largest teachers union in the US and an organization which the Michigan Education Association (MEA) is a part of, at a recent United Nations Commission on the Status of Women meeting. She did not represent herself or her own views- she spoke for the NEA, and since she has not been promptly fired or otherwise publicly reprimanded, the NEA must then support and agree with her views. This means that when she speaks, she is speaking for most of the teachers in our nation. Via memeorandum, I read that she said:
“Oral sex, masturbation, and orgasms need to be taught in education,” Diane Schneider told the audience at a panel on combating homophobia and transphobia. Schneider, representing the National Education Association (NEA), the largest teachers union in the US, advocated for more “inclusive” sex education in US schools, with curricula based on liberal hetero and homosexual expression. She claimed that the idea of sex education remains an oxymoron if it is abstinence-based, or if students are still able to opt-out.To sum up, students and parents should have no choice in the matter, religion and family are outdated old ideas that need to be dropped, and every student should learn their science and math and social studies through the lens of liberal and homosexual expression.
Comprehensive sex education is “the only way to combat heterosexism and gender conformity,” Schneider proclaimed, “and we must make these issues a part of every middle and high-school student’s agenda.” “Gender identity expression and sexual orientation are a spectrum,” she explained, and said that those opposed to homosexuality “are stuck in a binary box that religion and family create.”
Furthermore, as a panelist speaking for the NEA, she further advocated for increasing sexualization of youth, a more liberal approach to sex, approval of masturbation, and exposure to children of graphic content in their youngest years. This panel will shape policies of the United Nations, which receives a large portion of its funding on the backs of US taxpayers.
Of course she needs to be fired, the NEA needs to reevaluate its hiring practices, the MEA needs to reevaluate its association with the NEA, the United States ambassador to the UN needs to issue a statement disagreeing with this agenda, and the US needs to seriously consider whether the UN is appropriately spending US taxpayer money. Those are all givens. But we- you and I- are also going to have to start devoting more time to fighting communism, since it appears that they actually are winning the Cold War (although long after their economic, social, and military system has collapsed because of communism and its perverted ideology).
Via theblogprof:
For the record - actually the Congressional record - here are the communist goals from 1963:UPDATE: Thank you Freedom is Just Another Word for linking to this post!
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."
40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
"Disgusting" GOP Attempt to Defund Child Pornography Viewing Causes Democrats to Vote Against a Jobs Bill
"It's absurd," Rep. Brian Baird (D-Wash.) said. "It's specious, and it's disgusting. And those are the nicest things I can say about it."
"For anyone that is concerned about federal employees watching pornography, they just saw a pornographic movie. It's called; 'Motion to Recommit,'" Science Committee Chairman and bill author Rep. Bart Gordon (D-Tenn) said.
That's right- according to the Democrats, the GOP's attempt to prohibit federal funds from going "to salaries to those officially disciplined for violations regarding the viewing, downloading, or exchanging of pornography, including child pornography, on a federal computer or while performing official government duties" is the same thing as the portrayal of explicit sexual subject matter for the purposes of sexual excitement and erotic satisfaction and is disgusting, specious, and absurd.
Democrats are hard at work thinking of new ways to give away taxpayer money and this week came up with a federal giveaway program for politically connected science, research and training firms. The bill was moving through the House and was going to pass, but then the GOP attached a provision to the above provision to the bill. Democrats were forced to choose between jobs and no money going to federal officials looking at porn on taxpayer computers during work hours, or no jobs and federal officials looking at porn on taxpayer computers during work hours.
Democrats choose no jobs and porn for government employees. That's the party you support if you vote Democrat next election.
Happily Never After: New PTC Study Reveals TV Favors Non-Marital Sex
While I'm not a prude, and I do like the occasionally guilty pleasure of some shows on TV, even I am increasingly turned off by television. Apparently, there are studies to back me up. The Parents Television Council released a new study, Happily Never After: How Hollywood Favors Adultery and Promiscuity Over Marital Intimacy on Prime Time Broadcast Television, which revealed that broadcast networks depict sex in the context of marriage as either non-existent or burdensome while showing positive depictions of extra-marital or adulterous sexual relationships with alarming frequency.
The new PTC report found that verbal references to non-marital sex outnumbered verbal references to sex in the context of marriage by nearly 3 to 1, and scenes depicting or implying sex between non-married partners outnumbered similar scenes between married couples by a ratio of nearly 4 to 1. The Family Hour – the time slot with the largest audience of young viewers where one might reasonably expect broadcasters to be more careful with the messages they are communicating to impressionable youngsters – contained the highest frequency of references to non-married sex.
Some of the once-taboo-for-TV sexual behaviors that are now found on prime time television include threesomes, partner swapping, pedophilia, necrophilia, bestiality, and sex with prostitutes, in addition to depictions of strippers, references to masturbation, pornography, sex toys, and kinky or fetishistic behaviors.
Michael Medved remarked, “For many years, parents have worried about television’s glamorization of destructive sexual behavior. This important new report suggests another cause for concern: the de-glamorization of marriage."
'Development Pornography'
THDBlog reports on 'Development Pornography':
“Upwards of 90% of the images of the majority world that are seen in the western media are produced by white photographers from the USA or Europe. This results in a one dimensional view often driven by a negative news agenda or the need to raise money.”via AIDG
“Recognizing everybody’s communication rights in the information society is not mere slogan or campaign; it’s an integral part of social justice.”...Part of the reason for this kind of post-colonial choreography by INGOs is because they are still required to be the visual mediators of the poor world to the rich world. In Western society, our INGOs are inter-cultural gatekeepers. And you would often have for example, the young white INGO nurse talking passionately on television beside starving children…” Full story.
photo courtesy of AIDG Blog and Reuters
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