Comments on: usability and hazards of internet evaluation http://www.tangognat.com/2007/01/30/usability-and-hazards-of-internet-evaluation/ Agent Of L.I.B.R.A.R.Y. Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:43:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Anna http://www.tangognat.com/2007/01/30/usability-and-hazards-of-internet-evaluation/#comment-37794 Anna Sun, 04 Feb 2007 20:37:59 +0000 http://www.tangognat.com/2007/01/30/usability-and-hazards-of-internet-evaluation/#comment-37794 That is really too bad for the kids - I guess it shows how little you can really trust filters. That site has been around for such a long time, it is nuts it wasn't on a block list for the filter. That is really too bad for the kids - I guess it shows how little you can really trust filters. That site has been around for such a long time, it is nuts it wasn’t on a block list for the filter.

]]> By: Aaron http://www.tangognat.com/2007/01/30/usability-and-hazards-of-internet-evaluation/#comment-37617 Aaron Fri, 02 Feb 2007 23:33:02 +0000 http://www.tangognat.com/2007/01/30/usability-and-hazards-of-internet-evaluation/#comment-37617 We had our own "martinlutherking.org moment" last week at my workplace. We're a K-5 school, and the library computers are filtered. A class of 4th graders was in the library researching Dr. King for our school assembly. When they typed his name into Google, the hate site popped up in the results - and the filter hadn't even blocked it. Some of them had clicked on it before I noticed. I had to do an awful lot of explaining to the kids about why they shouldn't believe anything on the site. The kids who saw it were upset for days afterwards. Several of them came up to me at different times and asked why the bad racist people hate Dr. King so much. We had our own “martinlutherking.org moment” last week at my workplace. We’re a K-5 school, and the library computers are filtered. A class of 4th graders was in the library researching Dr. King for our school assembly. When they typed his name into Google, the hate site popped up in the results - and the filter hadn’t even blocked it. Some of them had clicked on it before I noticed. I had to do an awful lot of explaining to the kids about why they shouldn’t believe anything on the site.

The kids who saw it were upset for days afterwards. Several of them came up to me at different times and asked why the bad racist people hate Dr. King so much.

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