When students start using computers and networks, they start operating in a new, virtual world. Suddenly, behavioral lines blur: is it OK to download text from a website right into a term paper? What should you say about computer chat rooms or copying software programs? This new thoughtful and carefully written book helps you--and your students--understand today's information technology ethics, from downloading explicit pictures to guessing passwords to respect for privacy, property, and the law.

Help students explore the ethics of digital technology

Includes the Ten Commandments of...

"School Libraries Head for the Edge: Rants, Recommendations, and Reflections" collects Doug Johnson's wildly popular "Head for the Edge" column for" Library Media Connection." In one convenient volume, it brings together the best of Johnson's writing--topical, timely, technical, and theoretical--on the world of school media and the most effective ways libraries can use technology to serve teachers and students.

"School Libraries Head for the Edge" ranges across the breadth of its critically important subject, with chapters on libraries and education in transition, professional skills...