Safety for a Digital WorldComputers and Internet are crucial resources for our kids. These tools allow them to be full participants in today's culture and tomorrow's job markets.
However, our students can get into trouble if they don't know how to keep themselves and their families safe online. We teach our students digital literacy and online safety because we care about their well being at all times. We also understand that they can not be college and career ready without these skills and knowledge. It is also the law. Below are some of the laws that direct and inform our digital literacy and online safety curriculum |
California Assembly Bill 307 |
Assembly Bill 307 states that California schools will:
"educate pupils and teachers on the appropriate and ethical use of information technology in the classroom, Internet safety, avoiding plagiarism, the concept, purpose, and significance of a copyright so that pupils can distinguish between lawful and unlawful online downloading, and the implications of illegal peer-to-peer network file sharing. |
Child Internet Protection Act |
Under the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) and the Protecting Children in the 21st Century Act, as of July 2012 an E-Rate recipient’s Internet Safety Policy:
“Must provide for educating minors about appropriate online behavior, including interacting with other individuals on social networking websites and in chat rooms and cyberbullying awareness and response.” What is E-Rate? E-Rate is a federal program that provides crucial support to help your school connect to the Internet. NLMUSD is an E-Rate recipient. This program allows us to subsidize the modernization and major upgrades to our internet infrastructure, including wifi, within our schools. |