Reclaim Your Domain - Who Owns Your Student's Work?
Ramping up to the start of school, I hope to (finally) get several threads on student data privacy going. I also hope to draft a template letter that I'm going to offer to parents to ask their school about any kind of signing up for online groups that a school asks students to do. I don't know why the district would not think this important enough to even inform (no less ask permission from) parents about online services that their child signed up for and what information their child was asked to give away. Don't let anyone tell you that you do not have the right to ask - you do. Education writer, Anthony Cody, has left Education Week and is writing his own blog, Living in Dialogue . Anthony is a gifted thinker and his work is worthy reading. He has guest bloggers on occasion and this piece by high school teacher, Mary Porter, is very good and very troubling. Her thesis? Teachers must protect student agency and identity from the “templ...