1) 1st grade
2) 1st grade
3) I have wanted to unblock Facebook for a long time, but Parents/
Board/Super say no. I HAVE been known to let kids access Facebook in
my office for school projects however.
Karl H. Hehr
Technology/Curriculum Director
South Hamilton CSD
www.s-hamilton.k12.ia.us
515.827.5418 (W)
515.209.9767 (C)
515.827.5368 (F)
Luddite by Degrees
1) Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and
ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2) Anything that's invented between when you're 15 and 35 is new and
exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3) Anything invented after you're 35 is again the natural order of
things
--- Douglas Adams
On Feb 4, 2010, at 3:37 PM, Pearson, Jeremy wrote:
Everyone-
I have a few questions I would like to pose to the group
for input.
1 – At what grade do you start giving students Internet
access? Our elementaries would like to not have to log in to
computers as “special” internet accounts, they just want the
Internet to work for them. Our current practice would require
someone to log the computer in with an account that would have
Internet access. I assume that whatever your situation is, you
expect the teacher to still supervise their use.
2 – At what grade do you start giving kids their own
personal login, with a home directory and internet access. We are
doing home directories at 5th grade, and Internet access at 7th grade.
3 – Facebook. We have 3 interested groups ready and
wanting to create a Facebook group or a Facebook Page for their
specific group. We have talked about privacy, and what kids post
about themselves there and how we as District employees are
mandatory reporters. From my limited playing of Facebook, I cannot
limit access to specific facebook site, it is either give them
(staff only, not students) access to Facebook or not. All or none.
Their thinking in wanting to create a Facebook page is because that
is what the kids are doing, when they aren’t at school. My concern
is the privacy and lost work time with people maintaining their
personal Facebook, Mafia War or Farm Towncreation. Give me your
thought, the discussions you have had, and we can kind of go from
there.
Thanks for your time and help.
Jeremy
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Jeremy Pearson
Supervisor of Information Technology
Fort Dodge Community School District
104 South 17th Street
Fort Dodge, Iowa 50501
http://www.fort-dodge.k12.ia.us
(515)574-5676 voice
(515)574-5324 fax
