Glitches in school laptop initiative at the Pascack Valley Regional High School District in Northern Jersey. Problems were mostly related to students accessing inappropriate Internet content. Quote from NorthJersey.Com. Seen on Edu-Tech News.
"Kids nowadays know so much about computers that they can hack into whatever they want and do whatever they want to do," said Pascack Valley senior Jason Horowytz, 17. "The students use them for playing games and distracting themselves in class."
Administrators said there are procedures in place to limit this behavior.
"There are some kids who have gotten around the filters, and when we discover who they are, we lock down their desktop even further," said Erich Tusch, supervisor of technology for district. "We monitor network activity on a daily basis, and when something triggers an alert, we go out and confiscate that laptop."
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From the Kansas City Star (courtesy Educational Technology blog) comes a report of new high-tech ways to cheat.
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An excellent article from techLEARNING by Gwen Solomon: Shaping E-learning Policy (also courtesy Educational Technology blog)
