Digital Rights
Digital Rights and Responsibilities...
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This content page discusses the issues of digital rights and responsibilities. I chose to elaborate and investigate this topic because my students are at the perfect age where they can understand the importance of privileges, responsibilities, and following policies. They completely understand the concept of "stealing" and so I think that it is important that students are aware of how to be respectful of others and their work online.
Digital Rights: The understanding of rules, respect, freedom of speech, equality, and privacy as it is pertains to technology. -Brittany C. Tracy
A major factor when dealing with sixth graders is teaching them how to site their sources and use their own words to describe what someone has stated. This falls into the digital rights category. Students have a responsibility to the owners of any form of work to give them credit for their words, thoughts, ideas, images, or pictures. Often times students are not aware that they are committing an online crime because they were never taught that simply copying and pasting a picture onto your project is stealing unless it is properly cited. The links below are meant for parents, teachers, and students so that their can be an understanding and commonality amongst the three parties. Topics relevant in the links are how to avoid, teach, and monitor plagiarism, how to be responsible online, how to parent children in the digital age, etc.
Digital Rights: The understanding of rules, respect, freedom of speech, equality, and privacy as it is pertains to technology. -Brittany C. Tracy
A major factor when dealing with sixth graders is teaching them how to site their sources and use their own words to describe what someone has stated. This falls into the digital rights category. Students have a responsibility to the owners of any form of work to give them credit for their words, thoughts, ideas, images, or pictures. Often times students are not aware that they are committing an online crime because they were never taught that simply copying and pasting a picture onto your project is stealing unless it is properly cited. The links below are meant for parents, teachers, and students so that their can be an understanding and commonality amongst the three parties. Topics relevant in the links are how to avoid, teach, and monitor plagiarism, how to be responsible online, how to parent children in the digital age, etc.
For Parents
^This is a short four minute video about rules parents should be aware of when parenting a child in the digital generation.
^Online interactive website for parents so they can be aware of what to look for.
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^This is a downloadable pledge that can be signed and followed by you, the parent(s).
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^This article is good for the whole family to read and follow the guidelines for online use.
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^This article outlines nine easy steps to parent a digital child.
^This article, meant for teachers, can open the eyes to many parents struggling with understanding the importance of honesty online.
For Teachers
^This is a fantastic website that gives many lesson plans but more importantly helping videos that explain the importance of digital rights and responsibilities.
^This link brings you to lesson plans for middle school students to teach them about plagiarism, fair use, and copyright laws and their significance.
^This is a great article for teachers about how to teach students and parents the seriousness and implications of students caught cheating, knowingly or unknowingly.
^This article talks about the importance of teaching our students academic integrity and it compiles different websites that allow teachers to reach their students with this concept.
^This is an article that gives another point of view as to how to teach digital smarts to students.
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^ This ODF file is a compilation of lessons that build upon each other starting with students finding their digital compass.
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For Students
^This is a short video that outlines students rights and responsibilities while online.
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^This is a downloadable pledge that can be signed and followed by students.
^This is an interactive game where students must complete missions in order to stop some unwanted post to be made to the internet.
^This is an interactive game that appeals to most middle school students. You choose a character and follow them in the day in the life of a student. Throughout the day you need to make various decisions about how to handle different situations.
^This website defines how to go about legally using others' ideas, thoughts, words, images, etc.
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