The Truth

The truth! the truth could give happiness, the truth could give hope,the truth could set free, but the truth could also give disapointment and concern. It has follwed humanity since it was created, nevertheless humanity it self has been trying to destroy it. Technology has become a weak spot between the truth and the untrue. The media has concured the entired world, every business is managed by computers. There is at least one computer click behind every person's life. Alike everything else there's advantages and disadvantges.An advatage we could say would be the access to computers in every institution. But behind this advantage comes the disadvantage, in schools there is indeed access to computers but; is there fully access to the computers in our schools? and the answer is NO.

I attend Jam-student's School, computers is our devotion, but filerers our concern. An article"Filtering is Bad for Education" by Ted Nellen I read "It is so true" I said to my self. He wrote it for "Technology and Learning" in 1998 once he realized that the board of education had filtered the information in the computers( blocked the access to certain topics on line). He states that "Filtering software sends the wrong message. It tells kids we do not trust them, that they can't make their own decisions, and that the computer knows what is good or bad for them. Filters also tell communities that their schools aren't safe and that the workers in the schools are incompetent." This statement certainly reflects on us. As students need the access to computers, but there are certain things we don't have access to; that I consider is really unfair and why not, unnecessary.

Nellen reveals on his article that once as he was teaching his class about AIDS the information that he was going to provide his student was "Filtered". Now lets ask our selves the following questions: Don't we all know AIDS exist? Aren't we all exposed to the virus? Overall, don't we need information about the topic for several reasons? Teachers should know, and they do know what's convenient and not for their students, considering that they are parents as well. Ask your selves, why would a teacher or a parent go on a class room and make research on a topic that would harm their child? It is unsain to even think about it. I'm more than convince that your answers are similar to those of mine. It is fully of our concern the possible filtration of such topics. Nevertheless it seems to them "we know it all."

At school I'm taking a cyber english couse A personal experience as I write on my essay, I remember was when I tried to make some research on schoolarships. I tried to get into the web page and I didn't get any access. That really turned off, it is really a shame that in our own school where every one it's always trying to "encourage" us to go to college and tell us to "find" out information actually have "filtered" that information on us.

That as my own experience beside the one of those whom also agree whith the fact that Nellen pointed out about not trusting us and blocking our way to success. I mean;if they don't have any trust on us using their computers,why do they let us "play around "with them, in the first place?