Category Archives: Educators

Little Swipers: Child Safety & Digital Citizenship [Lecture]

2017-08-15 Little Swipers: Child Safety & Digital Citizenship from Frederick Lane A presentation delivered on behalf of the Guam Commission for Educator Certification in Magilao, Guam on 15 August 2017. If you are interested in discussing a presentation or professional development program for your organization on this topic, please contact me for information regarding my…

Avoiding Cybertraps on the University Campus [Lecture]

2017-08-14 Avoiding Cybertraps on the University Campus. from Frederick Lane A lecture delivered at the University of Guam on 14 August 2017. If you are interested in discussing a presentation or professional development program for your organization on this topic, please contact me for information regarding my rates and availability.

British Teacher Canned Over Mile-High Sex Allegations

A disciplinary panel for Britain’s National College of Teaching Leadership (NCTL) decided last week to indefinitely ban Eleanor Wilson, a 28-year-old physics teacher at an unnamed school in Bristol, from teaching in English classrooms. The panel’s decision came after hearing testimony from a student, “Pupil A,” that on a July 2015 flight home from a…

13 Reasons Why Anonymous Alerts® Can Help [Guest Post]

By T. Gregory Bender, CEO/President of Anonymous Alerts® [Editor’s Note: This blog was originally written by Greg Bender for the “CEO Blog” of Anonymous Alerts® and is re-posted with permission. You can read the original post by clicking here. In the spirit of full disclosure, please be advised that I have the pleasure of serving…

[Updated] Cyberethics from Pre-Certification to Retirement [Lecture]

2017-07-13 Cyberethics from Pre-Certification to Retirement from Frederick Lane A presentation delivered to the National Association of State Directors of Teacher Certification and Licensing on 13 June 2017 in New Orleans, LA. If you are interested in discussing a presentation or professional development program for your organization on this topic, please contact me for information…

ABC Nightline Shines Light on Practice of “Passing the Trash”

[Updated 2017-04-12] The video from last night’s broadcast is embedded at the bottom of the page in two separate segments. April 11 — Barring any sudden dramatic developments in the Middle East or elsewhere, the ABC news show “Nightline” will run a special edition this evening on the phenomenon known as “passing the trash.” The…

Tennessee Issues Amber Alert for 15-yo Student on the Run with 50-yo Teacher

[Update — 2017-04-02] On March 31, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation released screen grabs from a surveillance video recorded at a Walmart in Oklahoma City on March 15, 2017. (Oklahoma City is approximately a 10-hour drive west of Culleoka, TN.) The images show student Elizabeth Thomas, 15, entering the store on East I-240 Service Road…

Cybertraps for Educators [Lecture]

2017-03-09 Cybertraps for Educators from Frederick Lane A presentation delivered at the Putnam/Northern Westchester BOCES in Yorktown Heights, NY on March 9, 2017. This event was organized by Anonymous Alerts, which produces a school safety app to facilitate the anonymous reporting of various types of incidents. [Disclosure: I am a member of the Board of…

Cybertraps for Administrators & School Boards [Lecture]

2017-02-19 Cybertraps for Administrators and School Boards from Frederick Lane A presentation delivered at the Alaska Society for Technology in Education 2017 Annual Conference on February 19, 2017. If you are interested in discussing a presentation or professional development program for your organization on this topic, please contact me for information regarding my rates and…

TX Teacher May Lose Job over STEAMy Past in Porn

A 38-year-old Texas middle school teacher is on administrative leave after being outed as an adult film performer in the early 2000s. Until November 29, Resa Woodward taught science at the Young Woman’s STEAM Academy at Balch Springs Middle School, which is part of the Dallas Independent School District. She reportedly has been a teacher…