In all of our efforts to teach students safe, appropriate, and responsible technology use, are we forgetting the more important job of teaching our students empowered use?
The Blog "The EDjurist" is also somewhat affiliated with McLeod, and it covers much of what we worry about, in terms of AUP, how we deal with student pictures on websites, Facebook issues, etc. Here, the author gives the inclusive notes from his pre-conference session, including his powerpoint.
This is great. How many of these spaces do you have in your school? What infrastructure, AUPs, development, wireless access, etc. do you need to facilitate these environments?
This is a good model to start from in regards to acceptable use policies that will not inhibit learning, yet still has some gudelines to use if there are inappropriate uses.
This is a good model to start from in regards to acceptable use policies that will not inhibit learning, yet still has some gudelines to use if there are inappropriate uses.