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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
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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
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Martin, Kelly – T.H.E. Journal, 2004
It used to be that Internet threats were aimed at disabling their targets. The most common payload of yesterday's viruses, worms and other malicious code either caused system instability or, perhaps, deleted certain files. In many cases, these threats announced their arrival by flashing messages on the computer screen or causing some other…
Descriptors: Computer Security, Computer Software, Privacy, Internet
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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