Chapter 7 - online safety and security

Online safety and secuirity is absolutely the most important issue that every people should be noticed. So, for school, teachers and admisitrators also has the responsiblity to keeping students and data safe and secure.

 

Because of the legal requirements for school districts to protect student's privacy and saftey online. School should pay more attention on how to guide student's doing safe online work.

The first thing students should know is what is copyright?

The following video could help you to understand what is copyright and intellectual property.

 

Five Steps to Avoiding Copyright Problems

1. Create and implement a technology policy that includes a code of ethics and set of procedures.
2. Review the entire policy with your educational community: students, teachers, and parents.
3. Appoint a technology manager to conduct audits and maintain a log of licenses and registration materials.
4. Teach ethical and legal behavior for technology use.
5. Thank employees and students for supporting these steps. (n.p.)

So how to solve these problems when you face on some security problems? Here are several solutions below:

1. Awareness Programs

This program is focus on how to make students aware the importance of online safety and security. 

2. Acceptable Use Policies

The policies outline the guidlines, procedures, and responsibilities for using school technology. 

3. Ethical Behavior

4. Administrative Resrictions

5. Parental Involvement

6. Blocking

NETS-A 

(National Educational Technology Standards for Adiministrators)

VI. Social Legal, and Ethical Issues – Educational leaders understand the social, legal, and ethical issues related to technology and model responsible decision making related to these issues. Educational leaders: 

A. Ensure equity of access to technology resources that enable and empower all learns and educators. 
B. Identify communicate, model, and enforce social, legal, and ethical practices to promote responsible use of technology.

C. Promote and enforce privacy, security, and online safety related to the use of technology.

D. Promote and enforce environmentally safe and healthy practices in the use of technology.

E. Participate in the development of policies that clearly enforce copyright law and assign ownership of intellectual property developed with district resources. 

Citations

Solomon, G., & Schrum, L. (2007). Web 2.0, new tools, new schools. Eugene, OR: Intl Society for Technology in educ.