1
- At what grade do you start giving students Internet access? Our students
have internet access on there own in 4th grade. We have students that will use
the internet at Kindergarden, but that is for our online programs in which we
have a teacher and an aide in the room to monitor all activity.
2
- We have accounts created for students in 3rd grade where they have internet
access with parent permission.
3
- Facebook. We are currently working on how to handle this issue.
Keith Stoeber
Network Administrator
Cross Country Coach / Assistant Track Coach
Sioux Central CSD
4440 US Highway 71
Sioux Rapids, IA 50585
(P) 712-283-2571 x 5900
(F) 712-283-2285
"Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities,
because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can
be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation." -
John F. Kennedy
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From: "Pearson, Jeremy" <jpear...@fort-dodge.k12.ia.us>
Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 3:38 PM
To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us
Subject: [info-tech] Same Questions, different year...
Everyone-
I
have a few questions I would like to pose to the group for input.
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.
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.
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.
Thanks
for your time and help.
Jeremy
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Jeremy Pearson
Supervisor
of Information Technology
Fort Dodge Community School District
104 South 17th Street
Fort Dodge , Iowa 50501
http://www.fort-dodge.k12.ia.us
(515)574-5676 voice
(515)574-5324 fax
