Agenda: Week 6

ET 680 The Role of the Technology Specialist

"The computer people, who envisaged a computer "revolution" based on the widespread availability of small, inexpensive machines, failed to recognize either the demands posed by new uses or the needs and nature of new users. Involved with the technology of the new machines, they forgot that the real revolution involves people." --Siegel, M. and Davis, D. (1986). Understanding Computer-Based Education. New York: Random House. p. 6.

"Schools cannot rely totally on technological mechanisms to control how students will use the Internet. Technological mechanisms are not foolproof. Preparing students to be responsible users of the Internet also involves helping them learn what is safe and appropriate." --Grabe and Grabe (2000). Integrating the Internet for Meaningful Learning, p. 278.

"[Unnamed] County Nevada schools have used filters for years. They provde a false sense of security. Parents wrongly believe their kids can't get into anything unwanted. Teachers wrongly believe they don't have to monitor computer usage. Kids wrongly believe that [if] it gets past the filters it's ok for them to access it. The best filters are adults closely monitoring kids using computers." --Middle School Teacher in [Unnamed] County, Nevada

• Announcements and Questions
  • Thanks to Maija and Iffeisha for bringing snacks
  • Technology Committee Mini-Paper was returned via email
  • Questions
• Guest Speaker: Rachel Gelinas, Educational Technology Internship
• Information to Share: Acceptable Use and Filtering Policies
  • What is the status of your school/districts AUP?
  • Do all students/parents have to sign a policy statement before gaining network access?
  • Does your school/district require filtering?
  • What filtering package, if any, do you use?
  • Have you had or heard about any problems due to filtering or not filtering?
  • Has anyone in your school/district heard of the Children's Internet Protection Act?
• Acceptable Use Policy Brainstorm: What Should Go In Your School's Acceptable Use Policy?
• The Importance of Policies and Procedures: The Julie Amero Case, http://tinyurl.com/23nepo
• Acceptable Use Policies and Filtering
  • Essay on Critiquing Acceptable Use Policies - http://www.io.com/~kinnaman/aupessay.html
  • From Now On Index on Internet Policies - http://www.fno.org/fnoindex.html#Internet
  • Safe and Responsible Use of the Internet - http://csriu.org/onlinedocs/pdf/srui/sruilisting.html
  • NPR Report on Web Filtering - http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/970912.me.03.ram
  • New York Times article about filtering - http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/regional/121599ny-schoolfilter-edu.html
  • Study of overblocking by filters - http://www.fepproject.org/policyreports/filters2.pdf
  • The Children's Internet Protection Act - http://www.cdt.org/legislation/106th/speech/001218cipa.pdf
  • Supporting the Safe and Responsible Use of the Internet by Students: A Children's Internet Protection Act Planning Guide - http://csriu.org/onlinedocs/documents/cipa.html
• Technology Planning
  • Critical Issues in Technology Planning (Guidebook, pp. 21-40)
  • The Planning Process (Frazier and Bailey, Chapter 6)
    • Evaluation of Technology Plans (pp. 133-134)
• Technology Coordinator Job Description (Frazier and Bailey, Chapter 1)
• Assignments
  • Acceptable Use Policy Mini-Paper Due in Two Classes
  • Read Frazier and Bailey, Chapters 2 and 3
  • Information to Share: Information to Share: How does your school keep track of software and hardware, including: number of legal copies available, number of legal copies installed, where the software/hardware is, etc.
  • Snacks next week: Julia

This page was prepared by Dr. David M. Marcovitz.

Last Updated: October 14, 2009