Ensuring Success: Legal, Safety, Ethical, and Curricular Considerations for School Leaders
As we move into the 21st century, school environments are becoming more technology-rich. There are many considerations leaders of a school/district must take into consideration in order to make responsible decisions regarding technology. These include but are not limited to:
- Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) - monitoring the online activities of minors (filters and acceptable use policies)
- Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (Ferpa) - privacy of student records
- Copyright Laws - protect works so owner has the right to control the sale, distribution, performance, display and adaptation of works
- Fair Use Doctrine - small amounts of copyrighted material is allowed for educational purpose
- Creative Commons - allows creators of work to decide the extent they want their work copyrighted
- Evaluating Websites - webpages need to be evaluated for accuracy, authority, currency and objectivity
- Digital Citizenship Curriculum - create a curriculum to train the faculty, staff and students about proper use of technology (Common Sense Media/free, iKeepsafe/Faux Paw the Web Surfing Techno Cat/free, Generation Safe, YouTube, Google’s Curriculum: Understanding YouTube and Digital Citizenship, Cyberwise and BrainPop)
- Web 2.0 tools on intranets protected by firewalls
Knowledge brings confidence. By staying up to date on laws and policies, administrators should feel safe and secure with the teaching and learning possibilities of using technology.
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