Teach ethics in tech class?

That's what Camilla, Ga., teacher Vicky Davis recommends as she blogs in TechLearning.com about this time in which our (and every teacher's) action can be videotaped and instantly uploaded to YouTube and many other social sites. Among other examples, she cites the incident in Canada of students using a cellphone to take video of a teacher being abusive (later reports indicated they might have incited her yelling for video-sharing purposes – see "We're All on Candid Camera"). Where technology's concerned, she says, "students are largely self-taught…. When students teach themselves and adults are left out of the equation, teens focus on HOW to do things rather than if they SHOULD." Other bits of wisdom include: "Update acceptable [Internet] use policies" to include extracurricular use of video; understand that school hours are not 24/7; understand that filtering doesn't protect your school from this issue (which so far has been most schools' "solution"); and this interesting point – teachers "should always be ethical and kind, for truly it is the teachers who are wronging students or who are easily excitable who I think are most at risk."