Safe Internet Usage in the Classroom
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Safe Internet Usage
in the Classroom
Lynne Schalman
The Original Teaching Company
[email protected]
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 school’s
system: no use of AOL or Earthlink
accounts
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
Don’t 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
Be Proactive
Faculty meetings to discuss what ifs
Guidelines for consequences in AUP
Educate parents
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
Monitors On
Where are your Monitors?
Teacher Monitoring?
– Supervised Internet Usage
– Behind the Scenes checking
• In Netscape: about:global
• Check History
• Check Cookies
Software Monitoring?
To Filter or Not To Filter
The Problem with overblocking
The Challenge to underblock
Filtering Software
– Safe Surfin’
Enable Browser Content Controls
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
Other Issues
Plagiarism
E-mail netiquette
Time Wasters
Gender Matters
Evaluating Web Pages