Through Miguel Guhlin’s Blog, I found this video clip about Net Neutrality. It is definitely worth your time and explains what “Net Neutrality” is. It gives the historical background of how media (print, radio, television) was produced and in which hands it was (the rich and powerful) and how these companies are seeing their control slip away. And how they do not want to let this happen.
It is “their highway”. They want to control it. The big companies, like AT&T want to charge the consumers access, as well as for incoming and outgoing media. They also want to control what you are able to view on the Internet.

This is similar to how I felt about AOL at the beginning of the World Wide Web at the beginning of the 90’s, when subscribers went through their portal and THEY decided the news stories you would read and the pictures you would see. I remember that many of our neighbors and friends, preferred this method, since they felt “safer” that someone organized the content for them. I only felt manipulated and restricted.

The video clip further encourages everyone to learn more about Net Neutrality and get involved. What better way to do this than to pass this video clip onto educators, which in turn can make their students aware of the issue and encourage them to start/ keep producing media. That is exactly want these big companies don’t want us to do!

I would love to hear from other educators creative ideas how to approach this issue with the learning communities at their school (students/ faculty/ administration /parents)

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Beth Kantor has also written a post about Net Neutrality on her blog and gives many links for further resources.
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Posted: 25. February, 2007 at 8:31 am. Filed under: Uncategorized.
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