November Spotlight on:
A collection of perspectives, resources, and tools to help educators address safe and ethical uses of technology in schools.
Directory of Online Resources
Web sites related to safety, filtering, privacy, acceptable use and cyberethics.
Empowering Your Acceptable Use Policy
Hereęs your chance to reevaluate your Acceptable Use Policy and the way it is implemented.
COPPA: A Lawyer Answers Some Basic Questions
Who must comply with the Childrenęs Online Privacy Protection Act? What type of information collection is regulated? Following are answers to these questions and more.
An Educator's Perspective
Professor Kaye Abight offers suggestions on how elementary and middle school educators can address COPPA.
A Thumbnail Review of Some of the Most Popular Web Filtering Programs
Here, a quick look at Internet filtering tools available to schools today.
From our archives
Forum
Internet Filtering in Schools
Read points of view and comments from our online forum discussion about the pros and cons of Internet filtering:
Why Schools Should Use Filtering Software
By Susan J. Getgood
Why Internet Filtering Doesn't Work
By Carol Simpson
Articles
To Filter or Not to Filter
By Gwen Solomon
The Web - is it a dangerous place for youngsters? Should schools and libraries protect them from inappropriate material? The answer is not so simple.
(Note: This is a summary article based on a previous filtering forum.)
Child Safety on the Internet: An Analysis of Recent Thinking
By Gwen Solomon
This article provides background on the debate over child safety on the web.
(Note: This is a summary article based on a child safety forum.)
Forewarned, Forearmed: An Assessment of Problems Accompaning the Internet in Schools
By William A. McIntyre
Look at ten important concerns for schools and some online resources to help educators deal with them.
The Cyberpilot's License
R. W. Burniske
Buddy discusses the pros and cons of acceptable use policies and offers his own proposal: a cyberpilot's license program.
About Plagiarism and Pixels
By Diane Christian Boehm
Reflections on how we as teachers can ensure that our students develop a sense of ethics that would make plagiarism, no matter how easy, still unthinkable.
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