The federal CIPA law is going into effect starting in July
of 2012 that will educate students K-12 on internet safety. What is the federal
law calling for from schools? It is a vague, yet definite list of CIPA
requirements that every school receiving E-rate funding must begin to comply with
and bring into play this coming year. The actual requirements were vague in
their description of what they considered “inappropriate” content and never
mentioned how administrators and faculty were to provide evidence of teaching
internet safety to students.
While there are online resources, curriculum packets, and DVDs
available for general education teachers that are soon expected to implement
these lessons into their courses, it is true that some teachers are completely internet
illiterate and will be faced with a big challenge in order to weave this in to
their curriculum. However, I feel that since we already have lessons on bullying
other students and not talking to strangers, teachers should have little
problem teaching their students to apply these expertise while engaging on the internet
as well.
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