In order to keep the Nation's students safe, the government and school policies regarding technology need to work cooperatively. Schools need to check with government agencies to find domain names and URLS of sites with inappropriate content(adult, mature, violence, non-academic, etc) and create or find security programs to block access to said sites. Schools should also invest in developing or finding a program in which alerts them when this content is accessed.
Schools also need to invest time into teaching their students how to properly safe use the Internet inside and outside of school. Students are already aware of the benefit technology has to their learning, however, are uneducated about the risks careless searching and misuse of how technology can harm them later. The harms can include, but are not limited to, copyright laws, identity theft, pornography, etc.
Schools need to be a safe place for students to go. School officials need to be aware of threats being made online to schools. It is imperative officials find programs in which certain key words can be searched to find if any material or content matches said key words. With recent school-shootings or violence in mind, it is important for school officials to take threats seriously whether technology is or is not involved. If/when I have children of my own, I do not see myself sending them to school if death threats have been made at their school. Death threats...and technology need to be taking seriously!
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