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- 1. Safe and Ethical Technolog y Use By: Virginia Knoll TECH/524 March, 2022
- 2. Computer Safety Considerations Within Schools Photo Permissions Password Protection Backup File Protection Virus Protection
- 3. Acceptable Use Policy in Kids’ Terms
- 4. They signed… Now what?
- 7. Netiquette Rules and Resources Be honest and positive. Friendly Use proper language and titles. Respectful Stop, think, and reread before. responding Reflective
- 9. Staying Credible… Evaluating Credibility Citing Sources Copyright Guidelines
- 10. Resources: • Columbus State University. (2022). Center of online learning. https://cool.columbusstate.edu/standards/netiquette-guidelines.php • Common Sense Media. (n.d.). Common sense education. https://www.commonsense.org/education/ • DeWaard, H. J. (2015). Critical digita literacy. https://3239cdl.weebly.com/need-to- know.html • Johnson, Doug (2012). The classroom teacher's technology survival guide. Jossey- Bass.
Editor's Notes
- Hello - my name is Virginia Knoll and is my presentation about Safe and Ethical Technology use in school settings.
- Schools must have campus-wide safety measures in place to protect students, teachers, files, software, and hardware. A few basic procedures should be in place before asking students to work with technology in schools. One good practice is photography permissions. By asking for photo permissions (animation) on enrollment paperwork, schools can ensure that no child’s picture is used in a way that makes a family uncomfortable. While schools and teachers often like to post pictures of what’s happening around school or at special events on their online newsletters, school website, or social-media, it’s not okay to use a child’s picture without parent permission. Another system-wide safety consideration is a careful password habit policy (animation). Staff and students alike should be encouraged to use unique and unpredictable passwords for different log-ins and never to save them together or in obvious places. Schools should invest in backup file protection (animation). A data backup system will prevent schools from losing confidential data. Lastly, virus protections (animation) prevent malware from corrupting computers or allowing unknown entities access to school files. With these four considerations in place, a school can more safely allow students and teachers to with technology and online.
- Once a school has done it’s due-diligence to protect data and digital systems, they may invite students to work with technology and online. It’s important for students to know a school’s expectations for using school technology, so a Digital Citizenship Agreement is a good place to start. This is an example of one our school created to communicate our Acceptable Use Policy with our Kindergarten through 2nd graders. It outlines 14 expectations in 3 categories: Be Responsible, Be Safe, and Be Respectful. (transition) We created a similar Digital Citizenship Agreement for our 3rd-5th graders. This snippet shows an example of how the wording is slightly more sophisticated for the older students, along with an added bullet point acknowledging the student’s agreement not to alter settings on devices, assignments or programs.
- Presenting an outline of expectations on an AUP or Digital Citizenship Agreement is great – but we all know it can be hard to do the right thing under certain circumstances. So every grade level should have many opportunities to explore what it means to be a good online citizen through lessons specifically designed for their age group and opportunities to try it out. There are lots of resources out there to draw from when teaching kids to use technology safely and responsibly. (transition) CommonSense.org is an example of one organization that provides free, well-rounded and age-appropriate lessons. (transition). At our school, we use lesson slides, videos and songs, and printable resources with our students. (transition X2) and they love the adorable characters.
- The lessons in our curriculum cover a range of topics and spiral through grade levels, adding sophistication each time. For example, one lesson in 1st grade focuses on listening to feelings when using technology later shifts in 3rd grade to teach the power of words and what to do when someone is using mean or hurtful language on the internet. By 5th grade, the lesson defines cyber bullying and provides strategies for stopping it. The screenshot here shows our Technology Lab teacher teaching a Cyberbullying lesson about being upstanders to our 4th graders learning from home. Other personal safety topics focus on privacy & security, and digital footprints & identity. In increasing complexity, each grade level learns about what’s okay to share and what is too much information and how to be aware of stranger danger.
- Teaching online safety, privacy, and property goes beyond students learning to protect themselves – it spans to learning to use proper online etiquette – or NETiquette in consideration of others. Netiquette is simply having good manners in the digital world. A good checkpoint to teach kids is to not do or say anything online that they wouldn’t do or say in person. Students are tasked with following the rules set by their family, school, faith, teams, and government – and breaking those rules on a seemingly anonymous or distant platform of the web may be hard to resist. So a good place to start is to Remember the HUMAN, and that online life reflects REAL life.
- We strive to teach children to be friendly, respectful, and reflective citizens. These are habits, or manners, that should translate to the digital interactions. But without facial expressions, tone of voice, cadence, and body language to put words in context – learning to communicate in a friendly and respectful manner requires a bit of extra reflection.
- When considering adopting a curriculum for digital citizenship, it’s important to make sure lessons lay the groundwork for positive online relationships and communication early to prevent cyberbullying from happening in the first place. Common Sense Education begins lessons about our role in the online community in 2nd grade and continue through high school. These lessons dovetail into lessons about protecting ourselves and standing up for others should something more extreme happen – and they also teach about honesty and responsibility in the online community, helping to develop good research habits early. These (animation) cute characters star in the music videos, slides, and videos of the Common Sense Education curriculum and provide easy talking points for teachers looking to remind students of lessons learned by these little online-characters.
- With an abundance of information at our fingertips, and the expectation that students access up-to-date research and ideas to support their statements, teaching kids about credibility is an important part of curriculum. Lessons should teach how to properly give credit for other people’s work and explore the rights and responsibilities students have as creators of work. It’s important to explore with students why people might alter digital photos or videos and how to identify credible sources online. This is a great opportunity for kids to learn about how domain names, advertising or sponsorships, and search engines work – and about the idea of intellectual property and what a copyright is. Knowing these details in concordance with lessons about Netiquette and online responsibility will help prepare students for positive and reliable interactions online.
- To complete this project, I used chapter 7 of our class text ‘The Classroom Teacher’s Technology Survival Guide’. I also relied heavily on the lesson plans from the digital citizenship curriculum by Common Sense Education. I included ideas I drew from two university system resources.