Student+Privacy

=Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)=

Research
Below are resources to read or to watch. Some are digital, some are not. Any with an asterisk are required for you to use. Otherwise, select 3 or more to read/view/absorb. Additionally, using appropriate college-level research skills, you must find a resource not on this list that gives you additional insights to this topic. A professional interview with an expert-in-the-field is an appropriate resource. (3 of mine and 1 of yours is the required minimum...feel free to use more resources. If you want to substitute some of yours for mine, see me.)
 * [|*What is FERPA?]
 * OR This Classroom Management Textbook Chapter on FERPA ([[file:fall14class/Birch Camire Joseph.ibooks|iBook format]] OR .[[file:fall14class/Birch Camire Joseph.pdf|pdf file]]) by Katie, Sam, and Ryan from fall 2014
 * *One of these articles on the data being collected about students and its compliance with FERPA (and the changes in FERPA law in 2012 that allows more of it)
 * [|Is data-driven decision making violating student privacy?] This summary article links to 3 additional articles. The summary article doesn't count as research, but any of the 3 linked articles count.
 * [|A major non-profit organization in the student data business shuts its doors, mostly due to parent objections over student privacy]
 * [|"The astonishing amount of data being collected about your children" from the Washington Post]
 * [|Student behavior apps raising privacy concerns]
 * [|FERPA and social media]

Reflect
Create a reflection (write/record/document) in your personal digital classroom management kit that captures your reflections on your research. It should be apparent from your documentation that you actually took in information from the 4 sources, i.e. don't just list the book you read or the video you watched, but include some actual information from the resource. In your reflection you can agree and/or disagree with the author/creator(s) of each resource. You must include in this reflection a description of what FERPA is and its implications in your classroom. What will change in your teaching strategies on the day one of your students turns 18?

Resolve -- Proactive
Now that you have this information on this classroom management topic, what are you going to do with it? How will you apply it to how you want to manage your classroom? Describe one or more proactive approaches to this topic that you hope to incorporate into your classroom management.

Resolve Part II
Now that you have this information on this classroom management topic, what are you going to do with it? Even though you have a great proactive approach to dealing with this topic, there will come the day when the unexpected situation will arise in this area. Using the given scenario or creating one of your own, describe one or more reactive approaches you might take. Be sure to document how/why you know this is an effective reactive technique (i.e., cite one or more of your research sources).

Scenario

 * A student comes to you and says, "It's not fair that Mahildabob got 8 points on question #5 and I only got 3 points."
 * Look [|what really happened at Oxford]. What would you do?