The digital world can be found everywhere in today’s society including the classroom. There are multiple companies with products to assist educators in engaging and/or assessing their students’ progress. The Seventeenth Annual Report on Schoolhouse Commercializing Trends 2013-2014 allows the author Alex Molnar and Faith Bominger to bring attention to students’ privacy and lack of regulation by current laws. The data collected from the research demonstrated that information gathered about students from service providers were used to market products, sold to third party companies, or stored for future use. The information collected may include student’s name, social security number (SSN), IP addresses, and interest(s). Even if the student’s …show more content…
One of the first things was a “vendor-neutral data services” company called inBloom. It was founded by Bill and Melinda Gates as well as Carnegie Company Cooperation. The company claimed to protect and store data in one central location for easier access to parents, teachers, and students. Having a central location will allow for parents to have more options to be involved ad informed. Furthermore, the founders of inBloom claimed to increase student engagement. The idea is a logical next step in protecting students’ privacy. However, the critics questioned the commitment and ability of the founder to protect the student’ privacy. The critics challenged the motives of the company, Wireless Generation, built part of the infrastructure. As a response to the critics, “tt claimed that neither funders nor partners would have access to student data and that vendors would be allowed to access student records through inBloom only if the relevant state or district allowed it. With respect to data storage and disclosure, it asserted that its Data Store provided “the privacy and security functionality required by” the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA); that each state and district was responsible for the security of its own students’ data; and that according to FERPA, districts may disclose personally …show more content…
An example from the report is most companies have a privacy policy in which it lets their consumers know upfront what it going to be done with their information. The policy could read that it will “not knowingly collect, use, or distribute personal information” about children under the age of 13 (Molnar and Bominger, pg. 8). This may provide parents/guardians with a false sense of security because the company may not ask the age of the consumer interacting with its
Companies have an obligation to protect their customer’s information, which goes beyond that of complying with state and federal regulations. If the company loses the trust of their customers, they risk the chance of damaging
In today’s market driven society children can’t escape ads and their marketers, even their schools are filled with the advertiser’s products distracting the youth from learning.
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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.
The second discrepancy with Fleming’s article is the role that schools, especially universities, should play in protecting students’ privacy online. The fact that Fleming lists multiple examples of minors being hurt by poor social networking decisions has nothing to do with the topic suggested in her title “Youthful Indiscretions: Should Colleges Protect Social Network Users from Themselves and Others?” This is a red herring fallacy that appeals to the reader’s emotions yet has nothing to do with the writer’s original topic. Protecting minors online is a separate issue in itself in which parents and likely schools should be involved. On the contrary, for college students, the FERPA policies under which Fleming says a university employee must adhere to are meant to protect
2)) or a violation of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1996 (ECPA) (Colorado State University-Global Campus, 2014b, p. 3) are founded in the actions or rumored actions of Bill, the owner of the company, vis-à-vis Paige, as well as Bill’s proposals to the HR manager for a polygraph test, monitoring Paige’s emails and “friending” on Facebook (Colorado State University-Global Campus, 2014b).
Company "privacy statements" and "End User License Agreements"(EULAs) also change the expectation of privacy in ways that may not be clear without extended reading [12]. In the case of a merger between DoubleClick and Abacus Direct, in which DoubleClick was acquiring Abacus Direct, what was considered a legal use of data for each company individually constituted a breach of privacy if combined [13]. As the expectation of privacy is based on public perception and understanding, continuing technological advancement and the precedents set by court rulings on cases involving privacy will alter these expectations in the
There is a constant stream of technology in every direction. Everyday life revolves around technology, which has generously influenced today’s generation in many positive and negative ways. Students have the world at their fingertips. Anything can be found with a swipe of a finger or a click of a button. They want the newest phones, tablets, laptops, and other gadgets, while parents struggle to keep their children’s attention. Students cannot go a minute without their phones, let alone a week. Therefore, many schools plan to participate in “Shut Down Your Screen Week,” which is a week where students would unplug from technology. Bayless High School should not enforce the national “Shut Down Your Screen Week” because technology allow students to interact with others easily, to gather information quicker, and to help increase brain activity for users.
At High School One (a pseudonym) a rural 2A high school in Central Washington State. There are just over 1,000 students between 9th and 12th grade, with nearly 80% of the students identifying as white and just under 20% identifying as Hispanic. All students at High School One will be equipped with their own, school provided, Chromebook as part of the one-to-one implementation beginning with the 2016-17 school year. As this involves more than 1,000 students being connected to the internet for daily assignments, tests and score reporting, the ethical and legal issues of privacy are something teachers at High School One need to be aware of. In the 2016-17 school year, I will be teaching 152 students split between three sections of 10th grade World History and 11th grade U.S. History.
“Most: (Schloss, P. J;, & Cragg, K. M., 2013) stated in the postsecondary context, the rights of access to and privacy for educational records belong to the student.”
“This legislation grew out of the fact that by 1998 roughly ten million American children had access to the Internet, and at the same time, studies indicated that children were unable to understand the potential effect of revealing their personal information online and parent failed to monitor their children’s use of the Internet.” (Koby)
PIAs focus on the potential privacy issues of a number of programs/services because privacy legislation improves the overall awareness
With new technology and advances in education it is no wonder the use of computers, iPads, and other devices are trickling into the daily life of our younger generations. Perhaps these advances could be doing more harm than providing the enriching education parents and schools think they are. There are now elementary schools where every child has their own iPad and middle schools with Chrome Books the students can take home. Even paper textbooks are being replaced with electronic versions. The use of technology moving forward with education needs to be balanced with critical factors involving a child’s development. Children must be separated from constant attachment to screens to properly learn and develop necessary social skills to become adults who are able to interact and communicate.
Since children today have become digital natives; they will never truly know a world that is not touched with technology. This means that the educational paradigm has to shift in order to keep up with the needs of our young learners (Jo, 2016). In the last thirty years, technological advances
Today’s students and teachers live In a digital age, where an explosion of digital tools and information are available to anyone with online access. One one hand, it represents unprecedented access to information, communication, creating and sharing. Today’s students go online to accomplish many activities. With this power, comes the responsibility for teachers to impart to students the principles of digital citizenship.