Way back when, I used to think that teachers were completely responsible for classroom management, and students were responsible for their future. When I was in college, some people were reading novels in class. Meanwhile, my kids became teenagers, went on to college, and discovered the new 21st century Heroine: Netflix. This stuff is stronger than most people’s will power!
As an IT person, I would say leave the Network alone. As a parent, I will say leave the network alone but monitor (amount/user/time of day/class) users' behavior when it comes to Video Distraction and have guidance offices talk to “addicts". A school is in the business of education and teaching kids how to deal with modern media could definitely be part of the curriculum. A vicious side effect of monitoring “TV” viewing during class will be a silent evaluation of teachers! One stone two birds! Best, Philippe Philippe Hanset www.anyroam.net www.eduroam.us +1 (865) 236-0770 GPG key id: 0xF2636F9C > On Feb 9, 2016, at 8:25 AM, Lee H Badman <lhbad...@syr.edu> wrote: > > To me, the whole thing is a losing game, and takes responsibility for their > own actions away from the students. I teach as well- you want to watch > Netflix in my class? Have at it. But the grade you get is the grade you get. > There is no extra credit, no second chances to make up for bad behavior. The > other part of that, as a frequent student, is that some faculty members are > just boring and frozen in the 70s. Technology shouldn't be called upon to > make up for their deficiencies. Might be different in K-12, but if these > folks want to pay big $$ to not pay attention... well, this is America, baby. > > One curmudgeon's opinion. > > > > Lee Badman | Network Architect (CWNA, CWSP, Mobility+) > Information Technology Services > 206 Machinery Hall > 120 Smith Drive > Syracuse, New York 13244 > t 315.443.3003 f 315.443.4325 e lhbad...@syr.edu w its.syr.edu > SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY > syr.edu > > -----Original Message----- > From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv > [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Case, Brandon J > Sent: Monday, February 08, 2016 2:28 PM > To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU > Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] User and/or Location-based Content Restriction > > Is anyone exploring or able to suggest good options for rate limiting or > preventing access to random content services? This idea was posed to me today > from up the chain with the goal of limiting certain students' ability to > access certain services for a certain time, potentially only from a certain > location. Yep. > > As an example: Student A has a class in room 2 of building Z from 8:30 to > 9:20 M, W and F. The goal would be to prevent (or severely hinder the ability > of) student A watching Netflix from 8:30 to 9:20 M, W and F while they're in > room 2 of building Z. Outright blocking of access to Netflix during that > timeframe for student A regardless of location has also been discussed. I've > already provided a plethora of possible pitfalls to any of these types of > approaches and the associated administrative overhead they could incur but am > being asked for answers all the same. > > Yes, this does definitely wade into the treacherous waters of technological > solutions to what are really social problems (and I know has been discussed > on this list in the past) however, I'm charged with providing some form of an > answer up the chain and so I turn to you all for comments, insight and > cautionary tales. > > We're an all-Cisco shop with a healthy ISE deployment so my focus is there > with AAA override for ACLs, dynamic VLAN assignments, AVC profiles and QoS > profiles. Any solution I've thought of so far feels too much like a blunt > object though. > > Thanks, > -- > Brandon Case > Senior Network Engineer > IT Infrastructure Services > Purdue University > ca...@purdue.edu > Office: (765) 49-67096 > Mobile: (765) 421-6259 > Fax: (765) 49-46620 > > PGP Fingerprint: > 99CB 02D6 983C 1E2A 015F 205C C7AA E985 A11A 1251 > > ********** > Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent > Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. > > ********** > Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent > Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
