Legal, Safe and Ethical

As a future learning mananger, Wendy informed us that there are many Legal, Safe and Ethical policies that I need to follow:

• Get permission from copyright owners
• Digital book: if the book does not have a digital recording you are able to make your own, if there is already a copy, or use the images you can’t use it.
• If you play a video or radio at work, it has to be paid for.
• 10% of a book only!
• 3^rdparty: password protect.
• If you wish to get your students to edit or critique a passage, (critical thinking) eg Romeo and Juliet. Fair clause allows you to use the whole passage.
• As long as you don’t have a youtube account, you can download youtube videos: get rid of it as soon as you have finished with it, don’t use anymore than what is required.
• Source: hyperlinked, mention it is not yours eg. taken from this website
• Images need to be attributed

These are only some of the many issues when working with technology. As I move forward with my teaching, I'm sure I will learn more along the way. Just the other day, I learnt that when making a movie, even though I gave attribution, I can not have background music on the video, if posting it online, unless asking for permission. Therefore, I was quick to delete the music and upload a new video without the music. It is these sorts of things I need to make my students aware of, to ensure they abide by the legal, safe and ethical policies.

The legal aspect of this policy basically explains that, it is okay to use work the someone else has created, as long as attribution or permission is given (depending on the material, and where it is being used).

I will also need to teach my students the importance of working safely online. Keeping students privacy protected is paramount for a learning manager. As a learning manager, I need to ensure permission is given by the students before uploading images and videos to the internet.

Finally I need my students to work ethically online. They need to be aware that everything they post online, even if deleted, becomes permanent. They need to be aware of the effects of social networking, and the images they post on these sites; everything they post, can be found online.

There are perimeters in place at school to ensure students, teachers and visitors follow the correct policies and guidelines. As explained in the National Safe Schools Framework, each time any member of the school community logs onto a computer, they are required to complete a responsible usage agreement. These agreements are clearly communitcated and monitored.

As explained on the SmartCopying website, schools should take care NOT to:

• provide links on school intranets to content that is known or likely to be infringing (eg pirate music or movie sites)
• allow students to download content from sites such as Limewire or YouTube where the content is likely to be unauthorised or 'pirate' (eg scenes from a currently screening Hollywood 'blockbuster'
• allow students to 'burn' copyright content unless it is clearly for research or study purposes
• store content on the intranet or learning management systems such as Clickview unless it is licensed or clearly covered by a copyright exception.

Refer to QCAR ICT'S Cross curricular priorities, by the end of year 7.
• apply codes of practice for safe, secure and responsible use of ICTs

• review the use of ICTs in terms of safety, ethical practice, legality and responsibility

• apply values and codes of practice of the ICT environment that respect individual rights and cultural differences when accessing and delivering information online

• apply protocols to acknowledge the owner(s)/creators(s) of digital information sources and develop an awareness of legislation relating to digital theft and plagiarism

• apply a range of preventative strategies to address issues relating to health and safety when using ICTs

• develop and apply strategies for securing and protecting digital information, including personal information

• evaluate how their use of ICTs meets ethical and legal criteria

• reflect on, analyse and evaluate

References:


Ministerial Council for Education, Early Childhood Development And Youth Affairs. (2011). National safe schools framework. Retrieved from http://www.deewr.gov.au/Schooling/NationalSafeSchools/Documents/NSSFrameworkResourceManual.pdf

National Copyright unit. (nd). 1.15 Liability of schools, TAFE institutes and individuals for copyright infringement. Retrieved from http://www.smartcopying.edu.au/scw/go/pid/670

The State of Queensland. (2007). Information and communication technologies (ICT) cross-curriculum priority by the end of year. Retrieved from http://www.qsa.qld.edu.au/downloads/early_middle/qcar_ccp_ict_yr7.pdf