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POLICY ISSUES
Social Issues and Future Directions

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Table of Contents for Module 10

• Learning objectives for Module 10.
• 10.1 Important social issues of technology in education
• 10.2 Future directions of technology
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Learning objectives for Module 10

• Upon successful completion of this module, students should be able to:

  1. Define the key social issues facing technology in education.
  2. Discuss the possible future directions of technology.

10.1: Important social issues of technology in education

1. Integrating technology into the curriculum. (See following items.)

2. Better and less expensive hardware.

3. Better and more educationally validated software.

4. Improved technology infrastructure within schools and throughout the Internet.

5. More teacher training.

6. Content control.

   • Universal "rating" system.
   • Improved "blocking" software such as CyperPatrol, Net Nanny, etc.

7. Censorship

   • Zoning Cyberspace for Parents: Censorship or Smut Busting?
   • Court Overturns Communications Decency Act
   • Silencing the Net: The Threat to Freedom of Expression On-line
   • CyberTimes Communications Decency Act Home Page
   • ACLU Seeks Rapid Decency Act Decision
   • Teach-In' Planned for Sunday on New York Online Decency Law
   • N.Y. Governor Signs Law Banning Child-Targeted Sex on the Internet
   • Judge Rules E-Mail 'Spammers'Not Protected by First Amendment
   • The Prospect of Internet Censorship Raises Troubling Issues for Business

8. Security

   • Firewalls
   • Virus protection

     1. Establishing a sound virus protection program
     2. Evaluating Distributed Virus Protection Products
     3. Virus protection software packages
     4. LANDesk firus protection
     5. Product Guide to Virus Protection
     6. Select Group of Computer Scientists Hunt for Viruses
     7. Microsoft Ships Developers 2 Virus-Infected CD-ROMs
     8. So Who's Afraid of Good Times?

1. Improved hardware & software.

2. Full multimedia integration.

3. Improved infrastructure.

4. Greater use of technology in education.

   • Academic Opportunity Beneath Your Fingers
   • Western Governors Back on-Line University
   • CD-ROM's Give Users Power to Publish And Animate Original Books

5. Some current articles:

   • Postal Service Developing Digital 'Postmark' for E-Mail
   • College Courses at Your Convenience on the Internet
   • IBM to Market Software That Can Interpret Human Speech
   • Will Network Computers Supplant the Corporate PC?
   • Sun Offering a Lower-Cost Network Computer
   • Protests Mount as Net's Landlord Evicts 9,000

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