Internet Safety and Meeting eRate Requirements Martin Sieverding August 17, 2011 Wagner, SD

CIPA  Children’s Internet Protection Act  Enacted in 2000  eRate  Internet access  Included in your Tech Plan

Requirements  Access by minors to inappropriate material  Safety and security when using , chat  Unauthorized/unlawful activities (hacking)  Disclosure of personal information  Measure to restrict access to harmful material

Additional (2008)  Requires online safety education programs  Appropriate behavior on social networking sites and chat rooms  Cyberbullying awareness and response

FCC Order to Implement  FCC A1.doc FCC A1.doc  Funding Year 2012  School Internet policy must “provide” for education, need not include actual plan  Local board decides what is appropriate  You may decide Facebook is appropriate  Local board decides how this is implemented

FCC Order to Implement  FCC offers no definition of cyberbullying or social networking  Schools must provide FCC with Internet Safety Policy upon request  Must retain Internet Safety Policy documentation for at least 5 years  Student owned personal devices not covered by this yet

FCC Order to Implement  Implies that school laptops taken home by students and staff must also be CIPA compliant  Public hearing on policy  **Information from Debra Kriete, South Dakota eRate consultant

Tech Plan Guidelines  Explain how the district is educating minors about appropriate online safety behavior, including interacting with other individuals on social networking sites, chat rooms, and cyber bullying awareness and response. If no efforts are being made please indicate on plan.

Tech Plan Guidelines  Provide an explanation of your districts continuing efforts to provide the public (your parents) with information regarding internet safety and the use of technology. If no efforts exist please indicate so on plan.

What is compliance?  Nothing specific in regulations  K-12 comprehensive curriculum  Targeted grade levels  “Auditable” plans

Resources   Suggested by the FCC  Many others both free and $$ offer information and curriculum

Resources $$   Online modules  Was once free

Resources - Free   Areas for Educators, Parents, 3 age levels   National Association of School Psychologist, among others  urriculum_by_gr.htm urriculum_by_gr.htm urriculum_by_gr.htm  Specific safety curriculum of a FL School District

Resources - Teacher  ome ome ome  Pennsylvania school  page/ /Curriculum page/ /Curriculum page/ /Curriculum  Texas school Tech Integrationist

Other Resources   National Cyber Security Alliance   Teacher wiki – more a list of resources than a curriculum

South Dakota Resources   Sorry to say not a large site  digitalCitizenship.htm digitalCitizenship.htm digitalCitizenship.htm  TIE sent a video to all member schools  “Breaking the Culture of Mean”

Videos  YouTube and TeacherTube  Searches for any topic

Topics for adults  Sharing information  Social networking  Texting/sexting  Rules for using computers at home  Anything they can talk to their kids about

Questions ?? Thank you