Digital Citizenship: Monitoring Technology Use & Abuse [pdf] - 0 views
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Anne Bubnic on 03 May 09THE JOURNAL (arcticle) by Mike Ribble and Gerald Bailey. Provides a five-step program for creating a digital citizenship program in your school.Over the last two years, it has become evident that a behavior pattern of misuse and abuse with respect to technology is \nbeginning to emerge in our society. This outbreak of \ntechnology misuse and abuse is documented in continual news \ncoverage on TV, in newspapers and on the Internet - both \ninside and outside of schools. The endless list of misuse and \nabuse includes hacking into school servers, using e-mail to \nintimidate or threaten students, illegally downloading music, \nplagiarizing information from the Internet, using cellular \nphones during class time, accessing pornographic Web sites, \nand playing video games during class. Therefore, if you are \nusing technology in your district, you must begin to deal with \ndigital citizenship in a significant way. \n