Safe Internet Usage in the Classroom

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Safe Internet Usage in the Classroom

• Lynne Schalman
• The Original Teaching Company
• Summercore_at_nobles.edu

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Avoid Net Recreation

• In school, Net use should be limited to
  educational pursuits
• Ban recreational activities including fantasy
  baseball, shopping, chatting
• Web use should be restricted to the schools
  system no use of AOL or Earthlink accounts

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Issues to Consider An Overview

• Who should make these decisions?
• Who will be updating the approved sites?
• Do you want to rely on third party decisions?
• What kinds of content is the issue?
• Pornography, violence, hate groups, weapons
• How to use Teaching Moments

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Dont Fence Me In

• Students need to be fenced in
• Create a safe home page
• Create a safe list of favorites
• Investigate kid-safe index pages and search
  engines
• Kid Safe Search Sites
• Surfing rather than directed activities
• Grade level variations
• Using Software Links

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Be Proactive

• Faculty meetings to discuss what ifs
• Guidelines for consequences in AUP
• Educate parents

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Educate Students

• Rules about privacy for oneself and others
• Definitions of appropriate and inappropriate
  content and behavior
• Guidelines for what information can be shared
• Being careful about strangers and no Chat rooms
• Post the rules
• What to do if they arrive at an inappropriate
  site
• Develop critical skills Internal Filtering and
  Blocking
• Grade Level Appropriate Internet Usage Licenses

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Monitors On

• Where are your Monitors?
• Teacher Monitoring?
• Supervised Internet Usage
• Behind the Scenes checking
• In Netscape aboutglobal
• Check History
• Check Cookies
• Software Monitoring?

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To Filter or Not To Filter

• The Problem with overblocking
• The Challenge to underblock
• Filtering Software
• Safe Surfin
• Enable Browser Content Controls

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Curriculum Integration is the Key

• Webquests
• Specific Research projects and activities
• Limit number of Web Sites allowed for
  bibliography
• Integrate Web as a magic whiteboard tool

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Other Issues

• Plagiarism
• E-mail netiquette
• Time Wasters
• Gender Matters
• Evaluating Web Pages