Guidelines for using ICTs and digital tools in the classroom
The best advice is to inform students and teachers about how they should behave in an online realm and the safety and ethical guidelines to follow:
Legislation and law | Risk | Solution |
Copyright: Copying and communicating material | · Students material · Third party material · Copying entire works ‘ · Free for education’ material · Common Creatives – ‘free for education’ material · Statutory Text and Artistic Licence is set out in Part VB of the Copyright Act. · Statutory Broadcast Licence · Youtube · Format shift | · Written permission from student or parent to upload work · ‘Fair dealing exceptions’ for the purpose of educational: research or study criticism or review reporting the news parody or satire · Attribute third party material author copyright owner date · Passwords and secure sites for fair dealing to occur · If not commercially available or obtainable in a reasonable amount of time · 10% of work can be copied or scanned for educational purposes · Use ‘free for education’ material not relying on fair dealing · No copying limits · No restrictions on access · Unlikely to be protected by an access control technological protection measure. · Students may modify and share these materials · Allows you to upload content on blog: scanning from hardcopy images and text from internet images and text from electronic resources · Copy an entire television or radio program on to blog · Upload and embed into wiki or blog but cannot download and distribute · Original copy of material is lawful · Purpose of educational instruction · Buy material in new format · Unreasonably prejudice to the copyright owners work · Not remove or disable access control TPM |
Privacy | · Analyse the risk of posting information and photographs of students and teachers on the web · Reasons for publishing · Student situation, gender, age | · Do not print surnames on the web or use individual photographs when publishing students’ works on the web. · Consent forms signed by parents or guardians to upload works or photographs |
Cyberbullying | · Inform students and parents of the seriousness of cyberbullying | · Integrate curriculum based anti-bullying programs into classrooms · Educate teachers and parents · Change school bullying policy to include mobile and internet technology · Update acceptable use policy |
Child safety | · Inappropriate behaviour · Illegal sites · Pornographic or sexually explicit sites · Sites that advocate violence · Offensive sites towards gender, religion, ethnicity and political beliefs · The Internet Industry Association | · Do not print surnames on the web when publishing students’ works on the web. · Safe guard - keep blog address and wiki pages secure with usernames and passwords · Restrict access to wikis or blogs just for your classroom · Handling complaints · Taking down content · Promoting online safety · Implementing restricted access systems to some content services · Regulating certain chat service |
Here are a few consent forms to consider:
References
Australian Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth
Affairs. (2008). Smartcopying: The official guide to copyright issues for Australian schools and TAFE. Retrieved 5 April 2011 from:
Media Awareness Network. (2010). Challenging cyberbullying. Retrieved 5 April
2011 from:
Internet Industry Association. (2008). New industry code offers safer online
experiences. Retrieved 5 April 2011 from:
The State of Queensland
management. Retrieved 5 April 2011 from:
The State of Queensland
department’s corporate ICT network. Retrieved 5 April 2011 from:
http://education.qld.gov.au/strategic/eppr/ict/ictpr004/
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