A great deal of discussion about filtering regarding Skype and Facebook has been filtering through the blogs lately. Wesley Fryer has an excellent post on the subject, as do Jeff Utecht, Pat Hensley and Paul Wood. This isn’t a new issue of course.  Two years ago at Educon 2.0, I presented a session on Best Practices and Internet Safety.  It’s not that we don’t have a lot of very good rationales for reducing filtering that are educationally sound.   But this struggle between IT departments and curriculum staff is an unfortunate but ongoing one in […]