Alabama Technology Standards Administrators

1. What Every Principal & Staff Should Know About The Ethics ofTechnology (Internet) * Establish Guidelines * Acceptable Use Policy *Internet Safety *Privacy * Legal BasicsBy: Thad Fitzpatrick

2. Alabama Technology Standards Administrators • Create a shared vision for integrating technology • Into ethical standards • Develop a technology Plan • Facilitate the selection and use of technology • Apply and Model technology applications and professional practices • Use technology to facilitate assessment and evaluations in an ethical manner • Assess staff knowledge, skills, and performance in using technology • Use technology to assess and evaluate systems • Assess the use of multiple methods of utilizing technology resources • Demonstrate responsible decision making

3. Alabama Technology Standards for Teachers • Identify and evaluate technology resources • Assess advantages and limitations of technologies and content • Develop and implement classroom management plan • Model safe, responsible, legal and ethical use of technology • Design, implement and assess lessons • Use technology tools • Facilitate student’s use of technology • Design, manage, and facilitate learning with technology • Evaluate student’s technology proficiency • Utilize technology to enhance professional growth

4. Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) • All employees must sign an AUP. (They are held to a high standard of • technology usage and implementation) • Educational Purposes Only • Unacceptable usages of Network • AUP is a written agreement in the form of guidelines, signed by students, their parents and their teachers, outlining the terms and conditions of technology-use. • Inappropriate or illegal materials

5. Internet Safety • Child Internet Protection Act (CIPA) • Individual Responsibility of Parents and Users • Personal Safety • Hacking and Illegal Activities • Confidentiality of Student Information • Active Restriction Measures

6. Privacy/Legal Basics • Monitor • Inspect • Copy • Property of School system

7. What Every Principal Should Know About… EMAILS

8. What Principals Should Know About Email • Legal Issues • Create Rules • Monitor

9. Do’s and Don’ts Train Staff Internet Bullying Avoiding emotional and financial adversity Emails Can Become A Legal Issue

10. Create rules for your staff as Ethical Guidelines • Rules • Content of Emails • Include Staff

11. What Every Principal Should Know About… Blogging, Facebook, and Cell Phones

12. Freedom of Expression – Can it be controlled outside of school? • According to Thomas, Cambron-McCabe, and McCarthy, the key determinant of disciplinary action appears to be whether the material created off campus has a direct and detrimental impact on the school.

13. May 2011Doninger v. Niehoff -- • Student Blogging, The School House, and Free Speech Collide According to forbes.com, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that public school (i.e., government) officials did not violate a student’s First Amendment rights by preventing her from running for senior class secretary in response to a blog entry highly critical of those officials that she posted from home during non-school hours.

14. Facebook and Twitter warning to teachers who befriend pupils • One in 10 misconduct cases from schools involved teachers using social networking sites like Facebook to start inappropriate relationships with their pupils, it was reported. • Karl Hopwood, an internet safety consultant and former head, said: "My advice to schools is to always have a very clear and robust 'acceptable use' policy which is a living breathing document, not some 25-page tome on the staffroom shelf gathering dust. I think that they also have to have very clear distinctions between public and private."

15. 3 Approaches to Cell Phones in Schools • 1. Ban students from having cell phones at school • 2. Allow students to bring their cell phones to school and allows them to use them during non-instructional times such as time in between classes and lunch • 3. Possess and use their cell phones in class as learning tools

16. Student Suspended for Taking Pictures of Substitute Teacher Sleeping • MUSTANG, Okla. (AP) - Mustang school district officials say a Mustang Mid-High School, 9th grade, student snapped a picture of what appears to be a man with his eyes closed behind a school desk last week. • School officials say cell phones are allowed on school grounds, but can't be used during class.

17. Ethical Technology Standards • Where Does Your School Board Stand • Where Does Your Superintendant Stand • Where Does Your Principal Stand • Where Are Your Fellow Colleagues on this Issue • Where Do Your Students Stand regarding • these Standards