At least 13 states have passed laws requiring school districts to develop policies on cyber-bullying , including Arkansas, Delaware, Idaho, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina and Washington.
In California, a hateful Internet campaign followed sixth-grader Olivia Gardner through three schools. In Vermont, a humiliated Ryan Halligan, 13, took his own life after being encouraged to do so by one of his middle-school peers. And in perhaps the most notorious case, Lori Drew, 49, was recently convicted on misdemeanor charges for posing as a teenage boy on MySpace to woo and then reject 13...
Every faculty member, administrator, and librarian has concerns over what is or is not acceptable under copyright,yet there are no clear answers for educators to these questions:
• Is the use of copyrighted material in an educational environment automatically “fair use”?
• Are there any educational situations that are not “fair use”?
• How much copyrighted material may I use in class?
• and more..
"If this verdict stands, it means that every site on the internet gets to define the criminal law," stated senior legal policy analyst Andrew Grossman for the Heritage Foundation. "That's a radical change. What used to be small-stakes contracts become high-stakes criminal prohibitions."
An attorney for a suspended Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools teacher said Thursday she never intended for the public to view negative comments she made about students on Facebook.
But the case is now part of a national debate that pits teachers' right to free expression against how communities expect them to behave.
Schools receiving federal e-rate funding must now teach students "about appropriate online behavior."
The following laws and guidelines govern the operation of the Office of the Chief Information Officer and technology investment throughout the federal government. The Office of Electronic Government and Technology provides updates and overviews of IT legislation under consideration by Congress. Additional references can be found at the Chief Information Officers Council web site.
For some reason, the story is just getting around about a California Court Ruling from February that would have banned, or at least severely restricted homeschooling. By now however, the ruling has been reversed...
Urging schools to make eMail archiving a "critical part" of their record-keeping activities, a leading educational technology advocacy group has come out with a new resource to help school leaders understand and comply with recent changes to federal laws governing data retention.
First-year student Chris Avenir is fighting charges of academic misconduct for helping run an online chemistry study group via Facebook last term, where 146 classmates swapped tips on homework questions that counted for 10 per cent of their mark.
The computer engineering student has been charged with one count of academic misconduct for helping run the group – called Dungeons/Mastering Chemistry Solutions after the popular Ryerson basement study room engineering students dub The Dungeon – and another 146 counts, one for each classmate who used the site.
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At least 13 states have passed laws requiring school districts to develop policies on cyber-bullying , including Arkansas, Delaware, Idaho, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina and Washington.
In California, a hateful Internet campaign followed sixth-grader Olivia Gardner through three schools. In Vermont, a humiliated Ryan Halligan, 13, took his own life after being encouraged to do so by one of his middle-school peers. And in perhaps the most notorious case, Lori Drew, 49, was recently convicted on misdemeanor charges for posing as a teenage boy on MySpace to woo and then reject 13...
Every faculty member, administrator, and librarian has concerns over what is or is not acceptable under copyright,yet there are no clear answers for educators to these questions: • Is the use of copyrighted material in an educational environment automatically “fair use”? • Are there any educational situations that are not “fair use”? • How much copyrighted material may I use in class? • and more..
Schools receiving federal e-rate funding must now teach students "about appropriate online behavior."
For some reason, the story is just getting around about a California Court Ruling from February that would have banned, or at least severely restricted homeschooling. By now however, the ruling has been reversed...
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