Safety, privacy and copyright issues are identified as a potential problem when using the internet, that has serious implications for both teachers and learners, as well as the organisations teachers work for.
The edtopia website (www.edutopia.org) has a section on “digital citizenship”. Digital citizenship is defined as an umbrella term covering important issues from “netiquette”, cyberbullying, privacy and online safety, copyright, digital law, technology and more. edutopia is mainly aimed at children, but the safety and online advice fit any age group. The site provides a wealth of information on various topic of cyber-safety along with teaching resources. Below is a sample of what is on offer:
In New Zealand, the New Zealand Teachers Council offers information on privacy, digital citizenship and copyright. Although aimed at children, it is equally relevant for adult learners:
The New Zealand Netsafe website (http://www.netsafe.org.nz/ ) also gives
up-to-date information on staying safe on the internet and offers many
suggestions. This sight could be
an interesting teaching resource with adult learners as it is fairly simply
written.
If anyone else can offer relevant information on staying
safe on the internet, I am interested to hear more.
References:
What is Digital Citizenship? [video file] CyberWise1. Retrieved
April 20, 2013, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCkTmZ0bF5Q&list=PLvzOwE5lWqhRhUa0Zet5__9yfLX8NRvb3&index=1
What a good find Karen. I'll definitely use this one with my upper intermediate ESOL students; there's much to maximize starting with vocabulary building, ethics for discussion, and concepts to include as an essay topic choice.
ReplyDeleteLots of food for thought here, thanks Karen. This is such a big area of learning for adults who may rely on their kids to teach them about the online world. Many adults refuse to use social media because of concerns about lack of privacy. It's important to give our learners tools to explore for themselves and with their kids issues around safety, privacy and copyright.
ReplyDeleteThanks Karen, this is definitely worthwhile information that needs to be considered in our classrooms, and at home with our children. With the web being such a valuable resource in this new age, we need to all learn and remember how to participate in ethically appropriate behaviour. We also, need to be able to understand and identify negative behaviour, and the consequences of these types of behaviours. Thanks again for the post.
ReplyDeleteThanks Karen, your blog prompted me to go looking myself. This is what I found Min of Ed sponsored.:
ReplyDeleteNetsafe previously provided cybersafety teaching resources and activities on its site the grid. All content from the grid has been transitioned to the new searchable, interactive site http://www.mylgp.org.nz
Material is grouped into 3 categories, learning bits, guiding bits, protecting bits.
I'll go back to the site later
Thanks Karesse, I will look into that site. Sifting through the sites takes such a long time, so I welcome any helpful information. Cheers, Karen
DeleteThanks Karen
ReplyDeleteWill be great resource for this paper and ill send to others I know.
Did you see my last posting. It deals with what we can't control on the internet and its so true. My jolly yahoo xtramail site keeps getting all this junk advertising that automatically pops up. One advertisement is more pervasive than the rest is about 'singles men and women in your area". I must look like a lonely hearts club.
But try deleting them there is no button to do that.
Anyway thanks
Averill