Monitoring technology misuse & abuse: a five-step plan for creating a digital citizenship program in your school.(High-Tech Classroom Security)

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...inside outside of schools. The endless list of misuse and abuse includes hacking into school servers, using e mail to intimidate or threaten students, illegally downloading music, plagiarizing information from the Internet, using cellular phones during class time, accessing pornographic Web sites, and playing video games during class. Therefore, if you are using technology in your district, you must begin to deal with digital citizenship in a significant way.

Five-Step Program

One of the first steps in dealing with digital citizenship is awareness--determining whether digital citizenship is a significant issue within your school district. Digital citizenship can be defined as the norms of behavior with regard to technology use. Therefore, the Digital Citizenship Audit is a quick way...

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