A little birdy dropped this in my email recently. Its a job ad for NSW DET. Can you imagine the sorded characters they are going to get knocking on their recruitment doors this week!! Quick! Get your kid into a homeschool fast.
Dear everyone
We are urgently seeking a nominee at SEO or CEO level, to take up a full time role starting ASAP for up to 6 months to authorise the filtering of websites as part of the AIBE project.
The person would need to understand the educational /delivery implications of blocking sites and be able to liaise effectively with relevant staff to ensure a decision is made that is consistent with policy and addresses TAFE NSW delivery needs. More details about the roles are listed below.
I’m advised that funding is available from TOL2 for this position.
Would you let me know by COB Monday 11 Dec of a nominee? Thank you
Roles:
The person would be the TAFE representative on a Team involved in a range of activities including:
Looking at each request to block web sites and make an assessment as to the educational value of blocking each web site. In the case where it would be appropriate for a web site to be blocked for certain year groups or to be blocked for all those not studying a particular subject, they will block the site for those in the appropriate year groups or subject groups.
Looking at each request to unblock web sites and make an assessment as to the value of unblocking the site. Where a site is educationally suited to be unblocked for a particular year or subject group, they will add that site to the allow list for the appropriate year and/or subject groups.
Review overall filtering profiles for year and educational subject groupings to ensure that they are appropriate to the needs of students and staff.
Review the operation of existing email filtering and “banned words and phrases” to ensure that the levels of filtering are appropriate to the requirements of staff and students.
Review the current browsing filtering to ensure that the current “banned” search terms are appropriate to the requirements of staff and students.
In consultation with TAFE Curriculum Centres ensure that access to web sites identified in new curriculum material is accessible to staff and students
Research and provide advice and comment on future filtering requirements for DET to ensure that the most appropriate levels of filtering are available to ensure the best possible educational outcomes for students.
Liaise with the Child Protection and Audit Units in relation to the levels of filtering that are set and to ensure that emerging issues based on legislation and incidents that may have occurred within DET and the wider education community are addressed.
Kind regards
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December 18, 2006 at 9:45 am
Jo Fuller
Not sure when this add went out but it didn’t go out to all of TAFE? I hadn’t seen it before nor had others…. possibly only a select few are seeing it?
December 19, 2006 at 11:53 am
Michael
Hey Leigh,
Problem for me is, I reckon there is stuff out there that isn’t appropriate for 8 year olds to view – and blocking it so that IT-illiterate teachers don’t have yet another classroom management issue on their hands will be helpful for heaps of school teachers.
But of course this filter will also block stuff that’s genuinely useful to many of us (e.g. YouTube, even Digg last time I checked)… and I think the problem is that the same rules are being applied to schools as to adult ed environments.
It does sound like flexibility is in there:
it’s just sad that most of the time, it’ll be too late by the time the site is unblocked.
Sometimes Leigh I feel like you’re writing things off as if they’re simple, cut-n-dry issues… and just ridiculing the opposite point of view to make it look ludicrous… which cuts out decent debate and the opportunity to engage people who disagree with you…
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