Board Allows Use of Smart Phones for Education Paris, Tenn.- The Henry County Board of Education also approved the 2nd reading of three board policies, one which will allow the use of personal communication devices. Assistant Director Dr. Brian Norton said, “we’ve altered this policy greatly, to allow the use of personal communication devices, such as smart phones by our students and by opening this door, we also will expect our teachers to show student the proper use of the devices.” Students will be monitored on using their devices and they can only be used for educational time only. The policy also states students can’t capture photos of classmates or teachers or use those photos without that person’s consent. Norton reminded the board that social media has disadvantages, but also has advantages when it comes to learning. The board also approved a policy on 2nd reading regarding internet use of third party email addresses. Norton said the policy basically state’s, “with the use of new devices and technology, we are changing are policy to allow third party emails within the system’s internet.” Norton said many applications and education tools on the internet will require students to have email addresses, and currently the system doesn’t allow those to be accessed on the network, so it will be changed to allow it in the future.
Posted on: Fri, 23 May 2014 01:38:23 +0000
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