School Filtering
- Things happening (not much fact-checking)
- LINE/Slack/Discord were blocked in 9th grade.
- Screen monitoring apps for Chromebooks were introduced in the middle school, but the high school stopped it due to student council’s opposition.
- Middle school students cannot share files on Google Drive outside of school.
- As a result, they cannot deploy Google Apps Scripts to make programs run on servers.
- I requested the restriction to be lifted for the high school, but Richard said it was impossible for the middle school.
- I tried to bypass it with a VPN, but I was stopped.
- As the Digital Committee
- It’s problematic that we can’t use LINE because we can’t use the tools we created.
- Students without smartphones cannot test the tools under development.
- Even if the products are completed, there is no place for middle school students to use them.
- Even if it’s impossible to unblock them completely, can’t we at least have them blocked only on weekdays from 8:00 to 16:00, and have them unblocked at other times?
- Even if the above is impossible, please at least unblock developers.line.biz.
- developers.line.biz is a site for managing LINE Bots.
- Blocking this site is nonsensical and only affects us unnecessarily.
- If we can’t access this site, we can’t develop LINE Bots.
- It’s problematic that we can’t use LINE because we can’t use the tools we created.
- As a student who appreciates the freedom at GKA
- Premise
- Regarding this, I am just a student who only sees one side without considering the perspective of the teachers.
- So, I hope you can read this as just one perspective and consider it a little more.
- Honestly, I will graduate in a few months and I don’t really care about the future of the school, but I am advocating for this because I feel that it will lead the school in a better direction.
- I think it’s a simple imposition of goodwill to say, “This is better,” so please take it with a grain of salt.
- I am making this argument based on the “hearsay” mentioned above, so if there is any incorrect information, the following discussion will be just nonsense.
- In that case, I apologize.
- Regarding this, I am just a student who only sees one side without considering the perspective of the teachers.
- Argument: I don’t think it’s good to strengthen restrictions because it makes it less likely for students to go beyond the boundaries of the school.
- (I don’t really want to say this about myself, but as a premise) I think I am a student who has grown and achieved results by going beyond the boundaries of the school to some extent.
- One reason for this is that the school was quite free and loose.
- I think this looseness is disappearing in recent trends, and I think it’s not good.
- I feel that by imposing more restrictions, we unknowingly crush various possibilities.
- Based on my own visible range of experiences and existing rules, I will give examples of how “various possibilities are being crushed”:
- When I was in junior high school, I used Slack for communication in the robotics club.
- If communication tools were restricted like they are now, it would have been difficult to carry out activities.
- I learned a lot about programming in an online community on Discord.
- If access to Discord was blocked like it is now, I would have missed this opportunity and wouldn’t be where I am today.
- In middle school, Akito and I started using computers without permission for assignments where we had to create something.
- I learned a lot from that, and I think Akito’s design skills also improved (probably) (let me know if I’m wrong).
- Of course, now everyone can use computers (which is why various problems are occurring), so I think it’s important to allow students to explore things they don’t fully understand to some extent.
- (Regarding the VPN issue)
- (I’m speaking without knowing the actual details)
- I know several middle and high school students who have entered the world of programming through LINE Bot development.
- If they can create useful programs on LINE and have their classmates use them, they can receive feedback and the development process becomes more enjoyable.- Specific example: The potential of LINE API for ordinary high school students - Speaker Deck
- When I was in junior high school, I used Slack for communication in the robotics club.
- (I don’t really want to say this about myself, but as a premise) I think I am a student who has grown and achieved results by going beyond the boundaries of the school to some extent.
- (The GKA Digital Committee chose LINE Bot development as a topic with the intention of creating such people)
- Currently, in the block situation of middle school students, LINE Bot development has become impossible.
- Of course, it’s not intentional to block it with the intention of “let’s make them develop LINE Bot,” but as the blocks increase, the things that can be done gradually decrease.
- This is just a specific example within my visible range, and I think that “blocking” can eliminate various possibilities.
- Of course, I think this choice was made after considering various other means, but I think it would be better to relax it a little more.
- Also, I think the endless cycle of crushing communication tools is meaningless.
- Even without discussing the pros and cons of crushing communication tools,
- It is impossible to crush the countless number of tools, and I feel that if we continue to crush the well-known safe ones, we will end up with more and more dangerous ones.
- As for the issue of screen monitoring and privacy, well, I personally find it unpleasant.
- However, I don’t have detailed knowledge about it, so I won’t comment on it.