K12> White Papers on Technology Issues for Educators
Gleason Sackman
Sent: Thursday, September 30, 1999 4:22 PM
During the Spring semester of 1999, a course was offered at the University
of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign as part of an online Masters program called
CTER: Curriculum, Technology, and Educational Reform.
This course, Educational Policy Studies 304: Ethical and Policy Issues in
Information Technologies, included an assignment for seven teams, composed
entirely of teachers and other K-12 personnel who were part of the course,
to develop a set of white papers on a number of issues centrally affecting
the ways in which new information and communication technologies are
changing schools today.
An Educator's Guide to Access Issues
An Educators' Guide to Credibility and Web Evaluation
An Educator's Guide to Free Speech vs. Censorship
An Educator's Guide to Privacy
An Educator's Guide to Commercialism
An Educator's Guide to Intellectual Property, Copyright, and Plagiarism
An Educator's Guide to Computer Crime and Technology Misuse
Each of these white papers addresses how these issues present educators
with a number of difficult challenges and dilemmas in deciding how to
incorporate these new technologies wisely and to good educational effect.
To our knowledge, these resources represent the best overview of these
issues, written by and for educators and their particular concerns,
available on the Web: http://lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/wp/
We invite you to use these resources, link to them, and tell others about
them. Please be sure to credit the authors who created these resources and
the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, which sponsored this course.
Course instructors
Bertram C. Bruce
Nicholas C. Burbules
Teaching assistant
Barbara Duncan