We’ve been discussing a number of topics during today’s Summercore session about copyright infrigement, potentially hurtful blog and other internet posts by students, and related issues of ethical behavior among the so-called digital natives.

This is not a technical issue. This is not a Technology Department issue. This is an issue of ethical behavior that needs the same attention paid to it as we devote to other issues such as environmental sustainability, social justice, poverty and – as we discuss them at Castilleja School – our five C’s: Conscience, Courtesy, Character, Courage, and Charity (sorry, Heather, if I did not get them in the right order.)

This does not mean that the tech department doesn’t play an important role in the discussion of these issues. Indeed, we have an important role to play. It’s just that these issues are not under our exclusive purview. We co-own these issues with the entire faculty and administration – and the larger school community.

Thoughts, anyone?