Caught on the school network

At a school in Eastern Norway, the online learning platform “It’s learning” was abused by some students. A number of bullying messages containing swear words were recorded in the chat room. The use of  nicknames made it difficult to identify the sender, so the chat room was closed to everyone. But the problems continued via e-mail. The head teacher also discovered that passwords and usernames were being stolen. Subsequently, those involved were caught and several students were banned from sending e-mails.

Source: Romerikes blad

Teachers snooping around on students’ computers

Students at a number of schools have raised the alarm about teachers engaged in unlawful surveillance and monitoring. In some instances, the teachers are said to have mapped out every move individual students made online by going through the logs in detail.

“This is of great concern. Teachers are not authorized to engage in this kind of surveillance”, explains Halvard Hølleland, former head of the school student union of Norway (SUN). In his opinion, schools’ supervision activities go too far, and thereby imply that students can’t be trusted. Hølleland understands that there may be grounds for checking that the written and project work, submitted by students, is original and not taken straight from the Internet, but rejects the way in which this is being done. “Instead, students should be required to create proper reference lists”, he suggests.

Source: VG

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