PT ENGLAND SCHOOL POLICY 2006
NAG 5.17
INTERNET, MEDIA & PUBLICATION
INTRODUCTION:
Pt England School uses a variety of technologies to enhance student learning. These include email, telephones, computers, the internet, web publishing, blogs, podcasting, Google Apps for Education, in-school TV and broadcast TV. As well as receiving images and content via these media, the school publishes examples of students’ work and images of students or groups of students participating in school activites.
OBJECTIVES:
1. To ensure the safety of the child is paramount.
2. To enhance opportunities of for learning and ease of operation and to raise achievement of both children and adults
3. To provide teachers and parents with guidelines and information
4. To provide children with knowledge and skills to recognise and to deal with situations that may threaten their emotional and/or physical wellbeing.
5. To safeguard the reputation of the school, uphold the quality of the Pt England brand and to protect members of the Pt England Learning Community.
6. To give our students authentic opportunities to participate in a 21st century learning environment using appropriate ethics, values and understandings.
7. To enhance, build and model the Learn, Create, Share pedagogy
GUIDELINES:
1. The school will publish via the internet only on approved platforms; -its own website, iTunes, .Mac, teachertube, Google Apps for Education or those services approved by the Board of Trustees. Prior to children publishing to the public internet the teacher must approve the product. Teachers will only publish or authorise publishing to the public internet, material that enhances and supports the Pt England brand and that supports and protects the members of the Pt England Learning Community. The digital learning team will monitor and approve the quality of all such publishing. The school will publish via television on its own internal network, PE.N.N., on its own external broadcast programme known as ‘School TV’, on the Cluster external broadcast programme known as 'SchoolsInc' and on the international vodcast kpeTV. From time to time the school will engage with commercial publishers in order to publish material that is of mutual benefit. The school will retain rights over of all Pt England content published. The Pt England Senior Management and Board of Trustees retain the right to judge the quality and appropriateness of all published material and to make decisions regarding its placement.
Google Apps Terms of Service can be found here.
Google Apps for Education Privacy and Data Safety Statements can be found here.
2. The school publishes material like this for four main purposes:
-To educate the student in accordance with the National Curriculum
-To encourage the student to be part of, and participate in the school community
-To promote good things from the school in the wider community.
-To promote the idea of 'personal & corporate voice' and 'authentic audience'.
3. The school will not publish a student’s image or work without written authorisation from the students legal guardians at the time of enrolment. The school will immediately remove all material relating to a student from its publications if requested by the legal guardian. Approved visitors to the school may from time to time take pictures related to their professional development which include non-specific images of students.
4. The school will identify students on the internet and TV only by their first name and year at school. Students’ family names, home addresses and telephone numbers will be kept confidential.
5. The school will not publish any material that may defame anyone, be objectionable from a human rights point of view, be obscene or infringe the copyright of third parties. All published student material will be edited to correct errors prior to publication.
The students will not bring Music CDs' phone or pre loaded USB Drives to school with the intention of copying music, videos or other copy righted material.
6. Before students use the internet with their own 1:1 device they must attend participate in the Manaiakalani CyberSmart Programme session with either their class teacher or a teacher from the Creative Space.
The classroom teacher must be in the room whenever our students are working online.
Students cannot work online without teacher approval and an approved reason for use.
Students may not access any social media apart from what is provisioned for the whole school as part of our managed digital learning platform. Cluster-wide or across country learning experiences are treated like EOTC experiences, they take place with the knowledge and approval of the management team and similar safety measures apply.
7. Students will be taught specific steps for dealing with any unwanted material inadvertently discovered on the internet. ie. Screenshot then Quit (using Command + Q) > tell the teacher. The teacher will decide whether to send the screenshot to the Management Team or whether the whole device should be taken to the Management Team.
If questionable material is on a device or if there is evidence of an inappropriate search online, no single Management Member will verify this. If possible the "inquiry team" will include both genders and any testing of firewalling, filtering or questionable searching or checking of questionable material will be conducted in front of witnesses, documented and dated. Wherever appropriate the same process and result will be demonstrated to the caregiver/s of learners involved
The internet safety policy will be clearly displayed on the wall of the Creative Space and all classrooms.
The school will continue to refine methods of improving safety on the internet.
8. The school has a CyberSmart curriculum which must be taught directly or integrated for half an hour each week in every class.
9. The school has internet filtering and firewalling to keep all users of our internet connection/s safe. From time to time the school will share information with parents or caregivers where there has been a problem or issue relating to responsible use
10. The school has a privacy officer who is available to answer questions relating to all the issues above. The school’s privacy officer is the school Principal
10. In case of a concern, complaint or dispute, please contact the school Principal and then if an agreement is not reached, contact the Board Chairperson.
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