BYOD Program Analysis

I review the Blue Valley School District Acceptable use policy for student’s K-12. Technology use is important for all students, teacher, parents and school districts in order to provide a safe digital learning environment. Technology gives way to valuable educational experience that all students are entitled to. School districts have the responsibility to provide acceptable use policies for the digital devices, and the Internet provided to students, which is owned by the district. Whenever technologies are brought upon school grounds, or to school activities, even when the technologies are not owned by the school the technologies are still subject to adhere to the acceptable use policies. The intended use of technology in education is to open new learning experiences, benefit the student’s education experience, and create skills for future academic endeavors.

This is why I mentioned the above idea of getting a security device on all of your computers. There are multiple popular and free choices all you need to do is google, my personal favorite is McAfee which most of the time already comes on the computer. A popular and free choice is Microsoft Security Essentials. Just go onto the Windows website www.microsoft.Windows.com; protecting yourself from bad internet users can affect your business as they can create viruses and get into the work files. There are two network protocols that are used to manage devices and servers; they are called Secure Shell (SSH) and Telnet. SSH offers protection for users against anyone with bad intentions as it utilizes encryption to protect the traffic stream. Telnet has no security measures as it transmits all the data in plain text, including passwords. This is major security issue as a data sent in plain text can be captured in route and

Each user is responsible for their own network so if a virus is found in the network, the user is responsible for it.

Hernando County has a technology initiative; however, within the each classroom it can be hard to obtain, due to lack of technology. Within Challenger K8 most classrooms have about 2 working computers in the elementary grade levels. In middle school there are classrooms with no computers. We have 5 computer labs that can be scheduled for daily use and then scheduled for testing. Through our community partners the school has received 4 smart boards, and an iMac Lab. Our media person just received a grant for a class set of ipads. Some teacher have bought there own for students to utilize within the class. Hernando County also provided a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policy for schools to use at their discretion. The middle school uses BYOD on a daily bases for informal formative assessments, games, and engagement. Teachers also conduct surveys at the beginning of the year to understand what technology is at the student finger tips at home. O’Neal suggests, “it is critical that we look at the use

The new policy requires students to turn off all electronic devices — cell phones, iPods, MP3 players, tablets and

❒ Cell phones/electronic devices may only be used for educational purposes in the classroom setting. If a student wishes to use their device for non-educational purposes, they may do so before the morning bell rings, lunch, and after school (e.g., texting, internet, music) only if the cafeteria, patio, and courtyard areas remain clean with no trash, Monday through Friday.

This policy applies to anyone who utilizes any device provided by Columbia Station High School to access the Internet. This includes but is not limited to: students, faculty and staff, and any outside maintenance or persons of authority, i.e. internet service provider personnel, and officials of the law or court system. All users, upon acceptance of this policy, are encouraged to maximize the use of the resources provided to them, and are expected to adhere to all applicable laws and guidelines established in this policy. All persons accessing the technology resources are bound to this policy by through acceptance of this agreement.

However there will be a firewall put in place 4 skinning of any malicious information as well as packets that could potentially contain viruses. Some websites will be off limits such as websites that are known to have viruses or other types of malicious software and including malicious users inside of the network. We will cover the requirements for the network as well as security to incorporate a secure network so that away the students will be able to complete what it is that they need to complete and not be limited by blockages or anything that could cause them to lose faith in the wireless network. We will also incorporate several firewalls that are more than capable of allowing for cross-domain communication and any form of communication that they students need within other parts of the internal web. Who will have a DMZ and the DMZ's primary focus will allow the students to connect two sources such as the internal Library internal campuses or their email so that way they can take care of items at him. Seeing how the students utilize Microsoft 365 we will allow them to continue to use this on the internal web in the event that their computer does not have Microsoft products or they do not have an internet connection

This magazine article discusses some of the reasons why schools are implementing BYOD policies and considers some of the challenges that schools may face if and when they decided to

It is found that the most common sources of technology used within classrooms include laptops, iPads, projectors, and SmartBoards. Laptops, iPads, and

In order for students to protect their identity one should be prepared when they leave home to move into shared quarters, college apartments or dormitories. Equipment to secure personal property should be purchased and used. A cross-cut shredder should be used to destroy mail, especially if applications are received for credit cards, they should be shredded immediately. When sharing living quarters, especially common areas, students should invest in safes in which to store personal papers, checkbook, cash, and other valuables. Students should password protect their personal computers (iPhone, iPad, laptops, and other electronic devices). Passwords, codes, pin numbers, and other access codes should not be recorded. If not memorized these identifiable data security items should be locked in a secured safe. Many individuals use cellular telephones to record codes, which is likely to be violated. Individuals’ should clear the history and cookies from their computers on a monthly. All should remember that you would not leave your wallet full of cash unsecured. This care should be given to all electronic, digital equipment.

The ability to show slideshows with graphics and video helped make presentations more engaging to the students. An issue with the ability to incorporate information technology into the classrooms limited this candidate’s previously utilized repertoire of learning activities and assessment tools. In 2012, the district started to issue every student with an electronic e-learning device, in the form of Chromebooks, but for the incoming freshman of the 2013-2014 school year, the district changed to a “netbook” type device utilizing a different operating system. These “netbooks” did not integrate well with e-learning as students experienced long delays accessing the internet and opening websites, making them unreliable for use in lessons. This was reported to the district, but it was decided that students issued these devices would continue to use them for the planned full two full school years. Student response systems “clickers” were available to check out on a daily basis from the library, but there were only a few sets for the whole school which limited their

The Aim Higher College has recently had some issues with the research datacenter and the business datacenter on campus. Furthermore, the research datacenter is used to put the backup systems for the business datacenter and so the issues have been that the research datacenter is being left unlocked, not monitored, and systems are not secured. There have been signs that were found that some people were in the research datacenter after hours they left the lights on and still had their logged information on the systems and they also try logging into the business systems as well. As a security analyst in the information security department I must suggest a set of controls physical, technical, and administrative when students and faculty members

There are several reasons why internet security is vital to the classroom. The most important reason is to maintain a fully functional operational system free of problems like slow running computer programs and hard drive damage caused by computer program viruses. Students often unknowingly download these

Installation of Anti-Virus on remote users and servers to prevent any malware entering to the network