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Sender: American Memory Fellows <AMFELLOWS@RS8.LOC.GOV>
Poster: Ron Stoloff <rstoloff@MAIL.PHILA.K12.PA.US>
Subject: Re: Best practices
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At 11:22 PM 3/13/1999 -0800, you wrote:
>I would like to add my two cents here. Cathy Johnson and I started talking
>about American Memory when school began in August, but were unable to get
>hook-ups until February, but I asked students who had computers at home to
>begin learning how to access American Memory and browsing the collections.
>I also spoke about our projects at Open House and many parents were very
>excited and have browsed through the collections themselves.
>
>Well, I just had a parent conference with one family who said their son
>told them he had homework on the Web every night and spent hours "chatting"
>with friends. The conference was,of course, held because Jeremy was not
>completing his home assignments. Duh... When questioned, Jeremy confessed
>he was chatting with new friends he made on the web, and yes, a lot of the
>discussions revolved around sex and violence. The parents were very
>shocked and, of course, wanted to blame me. We had a lovely discussion
>about their role in knowing what their child was doing on the computer, and
>about how there were no such assignments written on the homework logs they
>are supposed to sign every night. It could have turned out very
>differently.
>
>San Francisco Unified recently sent a letter to all students and parents
>about the need for parents to monitor their children on the web. The
>problem was it was too wordy, too much legal lingo, and I'm sure no one
>read it. I'm trying to redo it to make it more understandable to our
>population. This is a major problem.
>
Hi!
At Edison/Fareira High School we created an Acceptable Use Policy that we
hope teachers will use to teach our kids how to use the Web without having
them trying to go into alt.sex.animals.perversion.
This hasn't had a tremendous level of use but you're welcome to the file,
if you're interested.
At school we use SurfWatch but we can only recomend to the parents who have
access.
Ron Stoloff
If the gods had intended Man to fly, they wouldn't have given us railroads!
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