I used the McComb Local School District Computer Technology Acceptable Use Policy (MLS-AUP)
Scenario 2
You receive this email from a parent:
Dear Miss Richards,
I am the mother of Ben Watson. Yesterday in your class, Ben
and his friend, Ryan, visited Wikipedia and saw inappropriate sexual
information posted in a section on the rock cycle (of all things!). Ben
said that he told you about it right away and that you told him to stay away
from that page. Is there anything else that will be done about this??
Doesn’t the school have a filter? How could something like this
happen under your watch?? Please respond asap.
Ms. Benedict
Ms. Benedict,
Thank you for your email in regards to Ben and Ryan’s
find on Wikipedia. I have contacted the
technology coordinator in which she has blocked this page right away. Like stated in the McComb Local School’s
acceptable use policy, “it is not possible to block all inappropriate sites
from the school networks”. The Internet
has so much information that it is very hard for our one technology coordinator
to monitor. It makes me proud that Ben
took the responsibility to report this to me.
Ben did the right thing by following the acceptable use policy in which
states that “students should report any objectionable material that inadvertently
appears on their device”. Thanks to Ben for reporting this issue as he
promised to do when signing the acceptable use policy, this inappropriate page
will no longer be a problem. Thank you
again for your email.
Miss Richards
Hi Laura,
ReplyDeleteI think you did a great response in your e-mail back to Mrs. Benedict. You clearly cited your schools AUP for the reason why the page was accessed and Ben's reporting of the site. I liked how you told her how quick action was taken by you (reporting it to tech coordinator and them blocking it) and how Ben's action is a positive thing.
The only thing I would've wanted you to include in your response is how you're working to include digital rights and responsibilities into your classroom and how Ben was a good digital citizen. By including this type of information you would've made a connection to the readings.
Overall, wonderful response e-mail!
I think that you did a great job of responding to the parent as well as responding to the issue. The parent now knows that this type of thing may happen but that it was not due to your negligence, and that something has in fact been done to prevent if from happening again. Nice Job!
ReplyDeleteLaura,
ReplyDeleteYour response was fantastic in response to the scenario presented to you. I like how you quoted the AUP and stated that Ben in fact signed this paperwork and how he followed the protocol for such event. The policy doesn't state that all inappropriate images and content will be appropriate but in fact that if a student stumbles upon content that the student has an active duty to report it. This takes all blame away from you and "how you could let this happen". Great work!