Week 29
Task 5
Activity 5: Legal and ethical contexts in my digital practice
One of the areas I work with teachers in is digital/cyber safety. It is a passion of mine to help make kids aware of what they leave behind in the digital world.
I get very concerned about how much of their lives, personal thoughts, actions, and where abouts students - and some teachers - put online.We spend quite a lot of time talking about this, things like where are you taking your photos for you selfies? in your bedroom? Ehat else are you showing the world? Not hard to track where you are at school when you show your uniform. Tell everyone on facebook you are going away on holiday for a week adn your house will be empty???? Some very interesting conversations.
I still think that we need to be very very careful when we are using students pictures. There is a difference between using images of students for educational purposes and putting kids photos and names on public blogs and sites without parents and students knowing about it and agreeing to it. I think we also have a moral obligation to keep aprents up to date with new technology and what kids are using now.
With so many people out there who use the www inappropriately and the amount of people who are using it for child grooming etc, we need to be very very careful we have parents ok and that we are not leaving students open to dangerous people.
Thought this pretty much summed up how some young people see older users.
With the new law changes around searching and seizing and the upcoming changes for cyber bullying I think we have a moral and ethical responsibility to ensure we are teaching children about safe and responsible posting. That it is not ok to get annoyed with someone and slag off at them on social media, or join in with someone who is, or take photos and videos of people without them knowing and post them.
We also really need to somehow get through to them and their parents that there is no such thing as delete in cyber space, and also that they have no control over any words or images once they have sent them to someone else.
The issue with bullying as a whole has become so much bigger with the growth of social media for the simple fact that it is much easier to insult, embarrass, confront, abuse others online, rather than saying these things to somebody's face. Before the social media endemic, people still thought these thoughts but they would be much less likely to tell it to somebody in person. It has become easy to be a bully!
ReplyDeleteThe Internet appears to children as a screen- passionless, incapable of emotion. So it would see that writing put-downs or stirring people up wouldn't be such a significant thing to do - or would it. But on the receiving end, I'm reading comments on my own- in private and what's said is speaking directly to me. This is the unfortunate reality of the 'disconnection'of people in the virtual world.
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