http://tweenteacher.com/2009/04/19/students-sexting-and-the-threat-to-ed-tech/ Heather Wolpert-Gawron Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:03:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://tweenteacher.com/2009/04/19/students-sexting-and-the-threat-to-ed-tech/comment-page-1/#comment-2339 heather Wed, 22 Apr 2009 04:42:12 +0000 http://tweenteacher.com/?p=322#comment-2339 Hey Mike! Good to hear from you. I agree. I say this often to ed tech anit-forces. All of the threats that we fear have been there before. They worry that kids will Tweet a cuss word. But I have a desk in the back of my room from the year alef with the word f%^$#k on it from the guy who came before me. We just don't have the extra desks to replace it. Also, texting, sexting, whatever, is just inflammatory note-passing much like the ones that I've confiscated throughout my career. It's scary, we must put things in place to combat it, but not enough to censor the tools. Thanks for the comment. -Tweenteacher Hey Mike!
Good to hear from you. I agree. I say this often to ed tech anit-forces. All of the threats that we fear have been there before. They worry that kids will Tweet a cuss word. But I have a desk in the back of my room from the year alef with the word f%^$#k on it from the guy who came before me. We just don’t have the extra desks to replace it. Also, texting, sexting, whatever, is just inflammatory note-passing much like the ones that I’ve confiscated throughout my career. It’s scary, we must put things in place to combat it, but not enough to censor the tools.
Thanks for the comment.
-Tweenteacher

]]> http://tweenteacher.com/2009/04/19/students-sexting-and-the-threat-to-ed-tech/comment-page-1/#comment-2337 Mike Albert Wed, 22 Apr 2009 03:04:01 +0000 http://tweenteacher.com/?p=322#comment-2337 I'm not sure that is a tech story at all. Kids have been sharing dirty pictures for a long time. What I see are very loose policies concerning the investigation of potential child abuse. I don't know about other districts or other states, but our district policy is that teachers and administrators never investigate alleged or suspected child abuse -- our obligation is to immediately report. If that had been the case with this Virginia administrator, it would have been handled away from the school and all of the influences that go with that, not to mention handled by law enforcement professionals, who are just as likely to not know how to download cell phone pics. I’m not sure that is a tech story at all. Kids have been sharing dirty pictures for a long time. What I see are very loose policies concerning the investigation of potential child abuse. I don’t know about other districts or other states, but our district policy is that teachers and administrators never investigate alleged or suspected child abuse — our obligation is to immediately report. If that had been the case with this Virginia administrator, it would have been handled away from the school and all of the influences that go with that, not to mention handled by law enforcement professionals, who are just as likely to not know how to download cell phone pics.

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