A nice discussion of privacy and student publishing has been bouncing back and forth for the last week or so. This page lists the major contributions to the discussion - click on the links from the bottom up. The issue, essentially, is this: if students publish work online, using, say, a blog, and if that work is evaluated, how much of this should be publicly accessible? The concern is, of course, that a student's privacy might be violated, and that student's should be protected from the harsh criticism that may be delivered from the world at large. I have always sought to do my work publicly - from public speaking, class newspapers and bulletin board projects in grade school to student journalism and activism in univresity. Trust me, nothing teaches you to write well, to write quickly, when you know that 25,000 people will read your words the next day. But that said, I think it should be the choice of the student - and it seems to me that the same digital rights we use to manage professional works can also be employed by students to manage the public - or private - nature of their work online.
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