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2016-02-23 Cybertraps for Educators from Frederick Lane A 30-minute keynote address delivered at the 2016 Alaska Society for Technology in Education annual conference in Anchorage, Alaska, on February 23, 2016. 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…
2016-02-18 Cybertraps for Educator from Frederick Lane A 90-minute presentation delivered to administrators, supervisors, and educators at the Fairbanks North Star Borough District in Fairbanks, AK on February 18, 2016. 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…
2016-02-17 Your Digital Footprint from Frederick Lane A 60-minute presentation delivered to grades 5-12 at the Cordova School District, Cordova, AK on February 17, 2016. 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.
2016-02-16 Cybertraps for the Young: Four Questions for Parents from Frederick Lane A 60-minute presentation delivered to the community of Cordova, Alaska on February 16, 2016. 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.
2016-02-16 Cybertraps for Educators from Frederick Lane A 3-hour presentation delivered on February 16, 2016 to administrators and educators in the Cordova School District, Cordova, AK. 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.
Senior picture days are a well-established right of passage in American high schools. They are a great opportunity for students to demonstrate school spirit, to capture memories to be laughed over at reunions decades hence, and generally to celebrate the impending transition from childhood to quasi-independent adulthood. The photo at the top of this post,…
At first blush (if anyone actually does that anymore), this seemed like a fairly straightforward, technology-facilitated teacher-student boundary violation. But then the legal documents began flying … Sex and a Guilty Plea In May 2014, a 17-year-old student showed a cellphone video to the principal of Richard King High School in Corpus Christi, Texas. The…
A 25-year-old Las Vegas teacher named Jill Lafave is charged with having sex with an 16-year-old male student in classroom at Valley High School, just east of the city’s infamous Strip. Lafave, who is currently on paid administrative leave, was an English and special education teacher at the high school. The two were reportedly seen…
Invisible Target: Breaking the Cycle of Educator Sexual Abuse. Andrea Clemens. 2015. Hickory Nut Publishing. 302 pages. [Source: Review copy from author] In the fall of 1981, Andrea Clemens entered the ninth grade and was upset to find out that one of her instructors was Robert Baker, a science teacher at Norwood Junior High School.…
One of the ongoing challenges in investigating cases of educator misconduct is that so many of them involve text messages, which are a particularly ephemeral form digital evidence. Unlike files on a hard drive, which typically linger long after they are “deleted,” or emails, which are routinely archived in multiple locations (just ask Ollie North!),…