Many tools and software can create URL blocks for specific needs-personal, enterprise, and school settings, to name a few. What is a URL Block?Ī URL block is a list of blocked sites that are deemed unfit to show to a user. This list of blocked sites is called a URL block. In order to make sure our young students reap the benefits of the internet, certain websites must be blocked either by private networks or by search engines such as Google. Students learn about Google search terms and online databases, not the Dewey Decimal System. No longer are teachers taking their classes to do research in libraries. To prepare today’s students for an increasingly tech-reliant workplace, technology use is now deeply integrated in the classroom. How do we know which sites have correct information? How do we know which sites are safe to access? How can we make sure that children access this information appropriately? Even seemingly harmless sites may contain videos, pictures, and other content that can be a distraction to the learning environment and also put the school’s network at risk (by downloading malware or viruses). With so much information available with one click of a button, new problems arise. Right now, there are 1.5 billion websites, though less than 200 million are actually active. When we sign onto the internet, we get our information from websites. In the last 37 years, that simple network has grown to billions of devices connected to the Internet of Things (IoT). When the idea of the internet was first conceived in 1983, it was simply a network of computers talking to each other.
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