1) Describe two implications for schools from the CIPA policy rulings, and two reasons for opposition to the policy.
2) Provide an overview description of four different censorship solutions that schools have exercised or adopted.
3) Discuss the use of AUPs in K-12 in the US.
4) Select one of the seven case studies. Discuss which censorship response or responses apply to that case study.
5) Explain why this is so in context of the readings.
6) Use one your own article(s) to support the discussion.
USE SUBHEADINGS
CHOOSE 1
Case #1 - Raw student message
An eighth grader sends an explicit sexual
e-mail message to his elementary teacher in a different building describing in
great detail what acts he would like her to perform. Alarmed, the teacher
forwards the message to the principal of the building.
Case #2 - Unsupervised Use
An elementary teacher extremely enthusiastic
about the Internet encourages students to browse through the Internet during
"free time." He feels 5th graders are old enough to make reasoned
judgments about materials and he warns them to stay away from certain sites.
One day a group of his parents descend upon the principal to complain that their children have been browsing Danish
pornography in the back of the classroom while the teacher corrected papers in
the front of the room.
Case #3 - Restrictive software
The high school principal proposes software
for the library media specialist to restrict Internet access to select sites,
preventing browsing and wandering. She asks the library media specialist to
identify "safe" sites. The rest of the Internet will be "off
bounds." You are the library media specialist.
Case #4 - Graphic display
A 9th grade student displays sexually explicit
graphics to other students in library media center. She
calls other students over to see what she has found - a photograph of a nude
couple engaged in a sexual act. She has parent permission to do independent
work with the Internet, but other students do not. As the library media
specialist, you observe this.
Case #5 - Raw Teacher Message
A basketball coach sends a raw message to her
buddy in another building but accidentally copies all staff members in central
office. The message contains several 4 letter words. You are her principal.
Case #6 - Network Mail review
Concerned that staff and students may be
violating the district's AUP, the network administrator scans mail messages to
be certain that no obscenity is passing over the network. One day she notices
romantic messages between two married teachers who are clearly having an
illicit affair. Troubled by what she sees as immoral behavior, she passes along
her discovery to the manager of information systems, who relays it to his boss,
an assistant superintendent, who passes it along to her boss, YOU, the
superintendent.
Case #7 - Death Threat
A system operator receives a death threat from
a high school student full of obscene words. She contacts the high school
administrators, who bring the student and parents in for a conference. The
student - a highly unlikely candidate for such behavior - denies any knowledge
or ownership of the note. You are the assistant principal.
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