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as it has created many opportunities for illegal, inappropriate and unsafe behavior among all participants.

For many districts, this isn’t optional. Some states, such as Virginia, require districts to teach all kids Internet safety and security issues, and districts receiving certain federal E-rate funds, which support telecommunications and Internet access, must adopt Internet safety policies that include plans for educating students about the proper use of the Web.

It’s not just teachers and students that are being targeted by Internet safety and security education efforts. As part of its Internet safety program, California’s Elk Grove Unified School District, located near Sacramento, holds “Internet safety nights” at schools for students and their parents, says Web specialist Kathleen Watt.

to create the Digi Teen project, in which groups of students collaborate with international peers via social networking on projects about Internet issues. Students focus on nine elements of Digital Citizenship, including traditional areas like security and etiquette, but also topics like ensuring equal access to technology in society regardless of income or disability. Another element is digital commerce, which is about the Web’s role in the buying and selling of merchandise, but it also raises awareness of illegal and immoral goods and services such as pornography and gambling.

“So instead of me standing up in front of the room talking about this [technology], they are learning it firsthand,” she adds.

such as Facebook or MySpace,

students who do not have a clear understanding of their topic (a topic focus) cannot select pertinent information.

High school students can develop and support a thesis statement if they have had good research experience in earlier years.

The problem solving emphasis of the process approach means a shift in the way we think about and use time.

Older students as well need to be helped to understand their feelings as well as their thinking as they work through the research process. McGregor (1994) found that even bright high school seniors need assistance in learning to think about their thinking,

here is also opportunity for the students to consider the role of the audience members in enhancing the sharing experience

prior knowledge and experience

The ministry of education has been

The ability to perceive, access, and generate emotions so as to assist thought, to understand emotions and emotional knowledge, and to reflectively regulate emotions so as to promote emotional and intellectual growth. (Slavoney & Sluyter, 1997)

very best of our knowledge and skills as teachers

one that demands the

some of which push learners to "get to work" too early and prevent them from developing a personal perspective and motivation for learning through investigation

However, schools need to monitor and enforce fair use. If they don't, as the Los Angeles Unified School District found out in a six-figure settlement, they may find themselves on the losing end of a copyright question.

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The digital additions and their explanations are as follows:

These days, almost all things are copyrighted the moment they are written, and no copyright notice is required. Copyright is still violated whether you charged money or not, only damages are affected by that. Postings to the net are not granted to the public domain, and don't grant you any permission to do further copying except perhaps the sort of copying the poster might have expected in the ordinary flow of the net. Fair use is a complex doctrine meant to allow certain valuable social purposes. Ask yourself why you are republishing what you are posting and why you couldn't have just rewritten it in your own words. Copyright is not lost because you don't defend it; that's a concept from trademark law. The ownership of names is also from trademark law, so don't say somebody has a name copyrighted. Fan fiction and other work derived from copyrighted works is a copyright violation. Copyright law is mostly civil law where the special rights of criminal defendants you hear so much about don't apply. Watch out, however, as new laws are moving copyright violation into the criminal realm. Don't rationalize that you are helping the copyright holder; often it's not that hard to ask permission. Posting E-mail is technically a violation, but revealing facts from E-mail you got isn't, and for almost all typical E-mail, nobody could wring any damages from you for posting it. The law doesn't do much to protect works with no commercial value.

A question is essential when it: