Cybertraps for Educators offers teachers and school administrators a frank and sobering look at the various legal risks they face from the use and misuse of electronic devices and social media. Covering a wide range of contemporary topices -- cyberloafing, cyberbaiting, loss of privacy, harassment, sexting, etc. -- this timely book explores the myriad challenges that technology poses for today's teachers. Drawing on fifteen years experience as an writer, lecturer, and computer forensics expert, author Frederick S. Lane helps educators understand these new challenges and offers specific, thoughtful suggestions on how avoid the various cybertraps discussed throughout the book.
Frederick S. Lane is an author, attorney, expert witness, and lecturer who has appeared on "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart," CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, the BBC, and MSNBC. After graduating from Amherst College and Boston College Law School, Lane clerked for two years for the Honorable Frank H. Freedman, Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts. After practicing law for five years and writing his first book, Vermont Jury Instructions -- Civil and Criminal (with John Dinse and Ritchie Berger), Lane launched a computer consulting business that in time led to his current work as a computer forensics expert and author.
This is an excellent resource for anyone who works in the area of educator preparation and/or licensing. I will be keeping my copy handy for presentations to student teachers about tech pitfalls that can lead to ethics complaints. I am not related to the author, but have seen him present at a couple of NASDTEC conferences and both presentations were great.