Educator's Guide to...  Free Speech vs. Censorship
Acceptable Use Policies 
Student Web Pages 
Filtering Software

 
A collection of essays and resources on the ethical issues of free speech vs. censorship and how they impact three specific situations in K-12 education: acceptable use policies, student web pages, and filtering/blocking software.  

This paper was revised by CTER5 students Mary Brown, Elise Johnson, and Jeff Rosendahl for the Computer Uses in Education class during summer 2002.

This white paper was created by David Barber, Tammy McLane, and Brian Abeling who are graduate students in the Curriculum, Technology, and Education Reform (CTER) Masters of Education program at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.  This project was completed as a part of the Ethical and Policy Issues in Informational Technologies class during the 1999 spring semester 
 

The 2002 addendum by Paulette Wall, Brian Pasero and Nancy Bogusch

Other on-line Educator's Guides dealing with similiar topics include: 

  • Credibility & Web Evaluation 
  • Access Issues 
  • Privacy
  • Commercialization
  • Intellectual Property, Plagiarism 
  • Computer Crime
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