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An AUP should: |
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• Educate parents about their children's use of the Internet |
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• Educate students about risks pertaining to computer communication |
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rules for efficient, ethical, legal computer/network use safe and appropriate computer social behavior |
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• Set forth rules to preserve digital materials created by students |
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and teachers |
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• Protect vulnerable children from inappropriate approaches |
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• Discourage children from making inappropriate personal |
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disclosures |
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• Encourage ethical behavior, and discourage criminal behavior |
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• Encourage accepted Netiquette from the very start |
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• Encourage polite and civil communication |
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• Encourage individual integrity and honesty |
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• Encourage respect for others and their private property |
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• Allow enforcement of necessary rules of behavior |
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• Encourage equal access to educational opportunities for all |
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children |
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• Protect the school networking equipment and software from |
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danger |
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• Share responsibility for the risks of using the Internet |
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• Discourage copyright infringement, software piracy, and |
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plagiarism |
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• Discourage slander, libel, and defamation |
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• Discourage profanity, obscenity, pornography, and waste |
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• Discourage network game playing and/or anonymous message. |
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• Clarify consequences for inappropriate behavior. |