Technology+Policy

__**Technology Policy: Keeping Your School and Yourself Out of Trouble**__ [|Workshop Handouts] this is the NECC09 link

Dr. Larry S. Anderson, Founder/Director **//National Center for Technology Planning//**

[|National Center for Technology Planning]

Top 10 Issues for Technology Policy:
 * Technology Use Policy #1 (School, District and Personal equipment)
 * Internet Use Policy Student & Staff Acceptable Use Policy #2 (Code of Ethics)
 * Web Content Policy #3
 * Content Filter Policy Level and over ride
 * Technology Purchasing Planning
 * Strategic Planning Policy
 * Social Networking
 * Funding for Technology
 * Computer Forensics
 * Evergreening and Asset Management

Policies. Are they a "necessary evil"? Some issues don't/shouldn't have policies. What is a policy? Are they guidlines or are they mandated rules? Is it cast in concrete or is it a living document? Is it a policy if the district has not accepted it as official. Some districts use guidelines with consequences if they are not district approved because in various districts, policies are written by and accepted by the board of trustees.

What is good policy? Is it relevant. Complies with laws. Self-contained. Rooted in reason. Balance of power. Guide but not restrict administrators or teachers. Results in improved and/or consistent behaviour/conditions. Kind, but direct. Principles and goals. A compass not a map. Sets expectations.

[|NAACE.Org]

National Association of School Boards

The Little Blue Book - The intracacies of the TASB Localized Policy Manual

[|Larry Anderson Backflip Site]

Districts need AUPs because:
 * The internet has dangers
 * the internet is impossible to censor
 * it is a "guide" for student learning
 * filtering, banning and blocking are failed philosophies (proxies)
 * proactive education - teach students responsible behaviour

AUPs should be called Responsible Use Policy (RUP) IES National Center for Education Statistics - Forum Unified Education Technology Suite Minot Public Schools - Minot ND: Good example of an AUP

Bob Sprankle - good ideas [|Bob Sprankle]

What is needed? A 21st Century Learning AUP (maybe AUP 2.0)

//"Students do not shed their rights at the schoolhouse gate."// This pertains to content filtering. Can we take away their rights to access sites on the internet? What would a "Reasonably Prudent" person, school or district do?

Ruling: Schools must archive eMail (Sarbanes Oxley)

Uni High Mobile Device Policy