Opening+Activity+Scenarios

Scenarios provided on cards:

Scenario 1. A science teacher in a 1:1 school is conducting a hands-on experiment regarding the dissection of fetal pigs. The teacher decides to use her data projector to facilitate her instruction. While having the students explore the heart of the fetal pig, she Googles "pig heart" to show the students what the heart might look like. Immediately an image comes up onto the screen that is of a naked woman with a strategically placed heart tattooed on her. The classroom dissolves into laughter. Several students immediately e-mail their parents. Within minutes the central office is called. The central office can not seem to contact an ITF so they contact a media coordinator to initially handle the situation.

Scenario 2. A history teacher in a 1:1 school is having their students complete PowerPoints comparing the roles of various individuals in the Civil Rights Movement. Students are working collaboratively and two students decide to do a report on Martin Luther King, Jr. When it is this groups turn to do their presentation, the teacher displays their PowerPoint on the data projector. Within minutes, the two students are portraying Martin Luther King, Jr. in a very "poor light" from the viewpoint of the KKK. At the bottom of each PowerPoint slide is the URL of a site they used to get their information. The URL is "www.martinlutherkingjr.com". The teacher quickly Googles the site and learns that the site has been developed by the KKK. Meanwhile, several students call their parents.

Scenario 3. In a 1:1 school, a student decides to use the webcam on their laptop to videotape a teacher sitting at his desk doing personal e-mail to his girlfriend (he has forgotten to shut off the data projector so the e-mail is displayed on the screen). The student decides to post the video to YouTube under an alias and identifies the school and teacher. Another student decides to send the link to their friends who in turn share it with their friends. Soon several board members receive e-mails about the video. The board members quickly end up in the central office reporting the incident. Meanwhile the teacher has no idea that he is the "star" of a YouTube video.

Scenario 4. One evening a parent that is unhappy about a 1:1 school's stance on a given text in the high school's English curriculum decides to write and send an inflammatory e-mail with racist comments to every student, staff/faculty member, and administrator in the school. In the middle of the night the assistant principal begins to receive phone calls about the e-mail from angry parents.

Scenario 5. A student of unknown identity takes a naked photo of a girl that she is angry with using her cell phone in the girls' locker room. The photo is then disseminated to numerous students using a Google e-mail address. Soon the photo makes its way onto the school's e-mail server and it is distributed to much of the school student population.