TOPIC TWO: Security and Privacy
TASK TWO: Based upon the information in the articles, the additional links shared on Blackboard and any other research you want to complete, discuss strategies that you as a language teacher can use to ensure that your security and privacy and your students’ security and privacy are not jeopardized when using technology tools, in particular the internet. Use 250 words in your response.
(Again, this is in the context of a post-secondary education institution.) If there are online components to be used in the course, some preliminary information about it should be outlined in the syllabus. At the beginning of the term, it is important to explain the use of those components, providing the students with instructions to activate the necessary features of the component. Some students require a detailed description of everything, and the instructor needs to explain things such as the existence of a book-key (code) to activate an account in a virtual workstation, for example, for the online workbook or laboratory activities.
Just as when in class the students are recommended not to give their real personal information during oral practice, when using online components from American publishing houses it is important to warn the students not to use their real email address. The reason for this is that American companies follow different privacy norms, and they can give or sell the students’ information to third parties.
Therefore, some immediate actions to be taught are:
• Create a separate email account to the use in online components.
• Read the terms of service and privacy policy of the publishing house website.
• Pay attention to check boxes.
• Keep your log-in information secret.
• When access your online course component in a public computer, make sure you close your account properly.
• Do not use the email service provided by some online workbooks to contact your instructors; rather use your institutional email account.
This last item goes both ways, instructors should only use the institutional email services to contact students, and follow the safety and privacy protection protocols designed by the institution.
