The DOE NYC acquired internet acces for their employees,departmental members, studnts and guests, including access to emails. The access is mostly limited to educational purposes.
The kd’s online privacy issue is sort of an agreement between website operators, teachers and parents. Operators must have parents’ consent when collecting or using a child’s personal information. The teacher can act as a go-in-between for the parent, that is, they can give consent in place of the parent by the parent’s authority. Website operators must allow the parents to access their children’s information, teachers must ask to see such information. Teachers should view whether sites require students to give personal inforamtion and how much, before letting the child use them. Parents do not have the right to opt students out of use of the internet. According to the DOEs acceptable use policy AUP, the Department reserves the right to govern accss and usage of the internet but all parties involved, namely students, teachers, departmental employees and guests. The department also reserves the right to terminate usage of the internet and email for any reason. To control how the internet is used by various parties the department installed internet filtering software. As far as student usage goes the system has default filtering levels form kinderdergarten to 12th Grade, with variations at 5 grade and 8 grade. The filtering is according to the students internet usage needs and educational requirements. It is modified to age consistency and educational goals.
It is very important for teachers to understand the issue of the Acceptable Use Policy and Online Privacy, because they need to protect the welfare of the child when they are away from their parents. The teacher has responsibility for the child during school and for the things that the child can access or put on the internet, in terms of personal information. Teachers also need to understand this policy so that they can stay on top of what the children are doing, they should learn more about the filtering to see what level of accessibility their students should have.
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