I support Banned Websites Awareness Day | by Stephen Abram August 22, 2012

Cross-posted from Stephen Abram’s blog, Stephen’s Lighthouse

I support AASL Banned Websites Awareness Day.  This year it is celebrated on Oct. 3, 2012.

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

To raise awareness of the overly restrictive blocking of legitimate, educational websites and academically useful social networking tools in schools and school libraries, AASL has designated one day during Banned Books Week as Banned Websites Awareness Day.  On Wednesday, Oct. 3, AASL is asking school librarians and other educators to promote an awareness of how overly restrictive filtering affects student learning.

AASL’s Banned Websites Awareness Day (#bwad on Twitter)

Here is AASL’s BWAD page

http://www.ala.org/aasl/advocacy/bwad

Last year’s event coverage in New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/29/education/29banned.html?_r=1

Michelle Luhtala’s “kick off” article in American Libraries

http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/columns/youth-matters/tale-two-students

My post from last year’s event:

http://www.aasl.ala.org/aaslblog/?p=1777

Stephen