Blog 4

I teach several different classes that all utilize the internet differently. The class that I will be creating an Internet Safety and Security policy for is Bio Technology. This is the same class that I will be creating my final project for. This is a high school class which has all grade levels in it. Students go through thirteen different stations in one year. They spend three weeks at each station. Almost all the work is done on a computer. Some of the work includes looking up: articles about the subject, vocab words, careers related to the subject, and any subject they need more knowledge about.
Since this class is very student lead and the students have a lot of freedom from the teacher it is important that I be very specific in what they can and cannot do. It is important that my policy points out exactly how they are allowed to use the Internet. The schools policy does this already but my policy needs to give them a quick refresher and also be more specific. It needs to outline for them how I expect them to use the web ex. what type of sites they are allowed to use, what type of sites they are not allowed to use.
This class relies on the Internet most of its research. My policy needs to talk about plagiarism and how to site their work appropriately.
Since this class gives them a lot of responsibility my policy needs to make it clear that the consequences for breaking the rules are severe. If they are unable to be trust worthy then they will lose their privileges of using the Internet as a resource.