Freedom of Information: How a Wisconsin School District Ditched Internet Filters
By Edutopia
7/5/10Among the more memorable people I met at last week's ISTE conference in Denver is a renegade technology director from Racine, Wisconsin. Just a few months after his promotion from network manager to director of information systems of the Racine Unified School District last summer, Tim Peltz made a revolutionary move: he removed the firewalls that had blocked students from many parts of the Internet. He didn't just remove a brick here and there. He tore those walls completely down.
...-- Grace Rubenstein, is a senior producer at Edutopia
via edutopia.org
Brave tech director? Forward-thinking, at least.
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