White Papers on Technology Issues for Educators

Original: Spring 1999

Revised Last: Summer 2005

During the Spring semester of 1999, a course was offered at the University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign as part of an online Masters program called CTER: Curriculum, Technology, and Educational Reform. The course, Educational Policy Studies 304: Ethical and Policy Issues in Information Technologies, included an assignment for seven teams, composed entirely of teachers and other K-12 personnel who were part of the course, to develop a set of white papers on a number of issues centrally affecting the ways in which new information and communication technologies are changing schools today. Each white paper addresses how these issues present educators with a number of difficult challenges and dilemmas in deciding how to incorporate these new technologies wisely and to good educational effect.

• An Educator's Guide to Access Issues.
• An Educator's Guide to Commercialism.
• An Educator's Guide to Credibility and Web Evaluation.
• An Educator's Guide to Computer Crime and Technology Misuse.
• An Educator's Guide to Free Speech vs. Censorship.
• An Educator's Guide to Intellectual Property, Copyright, and Plagiarism.
• An Educator's Guide to Privacy.
• An Educator's Guide to Sexual Controversies.