If there’s one thing grinding my gears right now it’s the risk of net neutrality going away.

In my NYCIST group today Bernie McCormic, Director of Technology
at Mary McDowell Friends School in BK, posted about resources he’s used to teach his students about Net Neutrality. This is an excellent current issue to bring up in a tech classroom, especially for older middle school and high school students.

Here is what Bernie is doing at his school. (Quoted verbatim from the NYCIST email group.)

“I pushed into a couple current events classes to talk, and gave a timeline, followed by the recent shenanigans, explained a little bit about the crony capitalism, and the importance of activism over the next two months. What was uplifting was seeing the kids’ reactions. What was terrifying was just how little most of the faculty understood the central issue, much less the ramifications.

The main resources I used were:
http://www.publicknowledge.org/issues/detail/net-neutrality
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/05/net-neutralitys-little-known-hero-antonin-scalia/361315/
http://brianwill.net/blog/2006/10/21/net-neutrality-the-electricity-analogy/
http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/r/m/rmf5/What%20Is%20Network%20Neutrality.doc.

And the actual bill:
http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2014/db0515/FCC-14-61A1.pdf “