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Waters, John K. – T.H.E. Journal, 2011
The need to maintain an unpolluted learning environment is no easy task for schools and districts that have incorporated social networking sites into their educational life. The staff and teachers at Blaine High School in Minnesota's Anoka-Hennepin District 11 had been considering the pros and cons of establishing a school Facebook page when the…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Web Sites, Educational Environment, High Schools
Ramaswami, Rama – T.H.E. Journal, 2010
Schools fear the predatory behavior that lurks around social networking sites, where the exchange of personal information can make users sitting ducks for hackers, thieves, cyberbullies, and scammers. So they're caught in what appears to be an all-or-nothing choice: take advantage of the academic opportunities that social networking sites can…
Descriptors: Internet, Social Networks, Safety, Computer Security
Waters, John K. – T.H.E. Journal, 2009
In December, Microsoft announced a major security flaw affecting its Internet Explorer web browser. The flaw allowed hackers to use hidden computer code they had already injected into legitimate websites to steal the passwords of visitors to those sites. Reportedly, more than 10,000 websites were infected with the destructive code by the time…
Descriptors: Internet, School Districts, Computer Software, Web Sites
Waters, John K. – T.H.E. Journal, 2010
There was a time when school districts showed little interest in storing or backing up their data to remote servers. Nothing seemed less secure than handing off data to someone else. But in the last few years the buzz around cloud storage has grown louder, and the idea that data backup could be provided as a service has begun to gain traction in…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, School Districts, Data, Information Storage
O'Hanlon, Charlene – T.H.E. Journal, 2009
Since laptop programs extend instruction beyond the campus, it is then a must for schools to try a variety of solutions to protect their machines--and their users. Combining high-tech safeguards with face-to-face user education is a must for schools whose laptop programs allow students to take the computers off-site. For a cautionary tale on the…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Laptop Computers, Access to Computers, Computer Security
Sturgeon, Julie – T.H.E. Journal, 2008
Acting on information from students who reported seeing a classmate looking at inappropriate material on a school computer, school officials used forensics software to plunge the depths of the PC's hard drive, searching for evidence of improper activity. Images were found in a deleted Internet Explorer cache as well as deleted file space.…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Computers, Internet, School Safety
Villano, Matt – T.H.E. Journal, 2008
The Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) requires any school or library receiving funding from the federal E-Rate program to deploy web filtering technology to prevent users from viewing objectionable material while they are using the institution's computers. However, opponents of web filtering legislation question whether or not mandated…
Descriptors: Internet, Web Sites, Computer Security, Computer Uses in Education
Waters, John K. – T.H.E. Journal, 2007
Information technology (IT) departments are ruled by a kind of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs: The big-tech stuff--the operating systems, the networks, the data centers--gets the priority, food-and-shelter attention, while upgrading the backup power supplies, evaluating new projector mounts, and taming that rat's nest of classroom cords fall…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Information Technology, Computer Networks, Computer Security
Villano, Matt – T.H.E. Journal, 2008
With K-12 students seeming to, at all times, have one foot in the real world and one in the virtual, school districts are starting to acknowledge a new collective responsibility: to teach kids what it means to be a good digital citizen and how to go about being one. The movement to address and characterize digital citizenship originated in the UK,…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Technology, Internet
Ramaswami, Rama – T.H.E. Journal, 2008
As technology grows more pervasive in education, the data recovery issues that school systems encounter are becoming increasingly problematic, as districts work to accommodate a range of concerns that do not encumber commercial businesses. State and federal laws often require schools to report on student populations and educational progress…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Technology, Computer Uses in Education, Technology Integration
Waters, John K. – T.H.E. Journal, 2007
The problem with traditional, perimeterbased security methods is twofold: First, they can stifle the educational mission that district networks were created to encourage. Firewalls can thwart hackers, but they can also prevent staff and students from accessing online tools or information. Second, these approaches tend to provide inadequate…
Descriptors: Internet, Educational Technology, Computers, Electronic Equipment
Starkman, Neal – T.H.E. Journal, 2007
Through conversations with students across different grade levels, there is clear evidence that two of the things they most desire contradict each other--and they use electronic technology to get both of them. This author had conversations with three groups of students in Seattle about their favorite electronic technologies, and any concerns they…
Descriptors: Privacy, High School Students, Computer Mediated Communication, Information Technology
Brown, Justine – T.H.E. Journal, 2006
Over the past five years, the No Child Left Behind Act, with its mandates for collecting and documenting student achievement statistics, has fueled a surge in the volume of data collected by schools, districts, and state education departments. This information explosion has gone hand in hand with technology's growing affordability and…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Teacher Effectiveness, Data Collection, Computer Security
O'Hanlon, Charlene – T.H.E. Journal, 2007
According to a January 2007 survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, 55 percent of teens (ages 12 to 17) report having created a personal profile online, and an equal number regularly use social networking sites such as MySpace or Facebook. Of those, 91 percent use the sites to stay in touch with friends they see frequently. With all…
Descriptors: Internet, Social Networks, Adolescents, Student Motivation