From this week’s course reading, I learned that school districts have been monitoring and checking on the appropriateness of information being put and watched on school devices that our students have been using. According to Cosn Report (2020), “investing in new security technologies that scan social media posts, school assignments and even student emails for potential threats.” I had a situation where one of my students used words like depression, anxiety, suicide in her classroom assignment. My administrator shared with me about it and inquired about further information regarding that student. An administrator could call parents, but I wanted to talk to the student first and checked if she was having a difficult period in her life.

When it comes to data privacy, school districts need to educate students and their parents to provide information regarding digital citizenship, cyber safety, and privacy. According to Cosn (2020), “one reality of the increasingly connected K–12 classroom is even the youngest students are routinely going online, using email and engaging with mobile apps that collect their information." In my ENL class, we recently read an article with my senior students regarding apps that bridge data in our smartphones. Some apps get access to microphones and cameras and app developers can see all our pictures, listen to all conversations and track our movements. I would agree with Ryan Pasquarette that we need to educate our parents on how to protect their cyber privacy and monitor their children at home. He mentioned that he was thinking of educating his students’ parents about cyber privacy. It will be beneficial for parents and children to expand their knowledge of available tools to protect themselves.