1 * At what grade do you start giving students Internet
access? Our elementaries would like to not have to log in to computers
as *special* internet accounts, they just want the Internet to work for
them. Our current practice would require someone to log the computer in
with an account that would have Internet access. I assume that whatever
your situation is, you expect the teacher to still supervise their use.
all of our district computers are set to connect to the Internet after
desktop has been loaded.
2 * At what grade do you start giving kids their own
personal login, with a home directory and internet access. We are doing
home directories at 5th grade, and Internet access at 7th grade.
grades pk-3 get a shared home folder -- grades 4-12 get home folder
3 * Facebook. We have 3 interested groups ready and
wanting to create a Facebook group or a Facebook Page for their specific
group. We have talked about privacy, and what kids post about
themselves there and how we as District employees are mandatory
reporters. From my limited playing of Facebook, I cannot limit access
to specific facebook site, it is either give them (staff only, not
students) access to Facebook or not. All or none. Their thinking in
wanting to create a Facebook page is because that is what the kids are
doing, when they aren*t at school. My concern is the privacy and lost
work time with people maintaining their personal Facebook, Mafia War or
Farm Town creation. Give me your thought, the discussions you have had,
and we can kind of go from there.
we use lightspeed to define groups/time schedules and do some periodic
release on some sites also but it is all getting to be quite a pain -- i
don't know the answer to all of this -- i only know that the web is full
of useful information and also so full of garbage that i don't know how
one can open it all up or try to lock it down
i wonder how many of the "great" speakers you hear telling us to open
things up actually have been in a classroom full of 30 teenagers or have
had to listen to complaining parents
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