November Learning: Expanding the Boundaries of Learning

Mike Dishman

About Mike Dishman
Associate Professor, Department of Educational Leadership, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA

Mike Dishman, J.D., Ed.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Educational Leadership at Kennesaw State University and an author of the forthcoming Educational Technology and the Law (Rowman Littlefield Education). Mike is a practicing school law attorney and the co-author of six (6) books on education law, policy and leadership. His most recent book is The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act: A Guide for Schools and Colleges (Rowman Littlefield Education, 2009).

Main Session Workshops

Blog You – The Challenges of Limiting Defamatory Conduct in a Web 2.0 Worlds (presenting with Traci Redish)

Assume you are a teacher employed by a local school district. One of your students falsely accuses you on a well-trafficked, but non-school, blog of making inappropriate sexual advances toward him. You contact the blog host and he refuses to remove the content. What can you do?

The Phoebe Prince Tragedy – A Legal and Factual Analysis (presenting with Traci Redish)

On January 14, 2010, Phoebe Prince, a 15-year-old Massachusetts student, hung herself after a relentless campaign of cyberbullying and harassment by her female classmates. Following her death, the national media claimed that the school’s administration was aware of the harassment, yet “did nothing.“ This section will look at the Prince tragedy, considering what the school could have done – if anything – to curtail cyberbullying.