Digital Agent

Aquinas College

School of Education

How do you represent yourself in digital platforms? As educators we must model and understand how we are agents who represent fair use and intellectual rights. This website will provide resources to help you fulfill the expectations for ISTE standard 3c and beyond.

ISTE Standard for Educators: Digital Agent Standard Citizen 3c:

Mentor students in safe, legal and ethical practices with digital tools and

the protection of intellectual rights and property.

Mentor: Coaching or ongoing guidance that includes modeling of your own practice; sharing with and teaching others; and providing ongoing, productive feedback and advice.

Safe practices: Interactions that keep you out of harm's way, for example, knowing the identity of who you are interacting with; how much and what kind of information you release online; and protecting oneself from scams, phishing schemes and poor purchasing (e-commerce theft).

Legal practices: Interactions that are mindful of the law, for example abiding by copyright and fair use, respecting network protections by not hacking them and not using another's identity.

Ethical practices: Interactions that align with on'e moral code, for example, preventing or not engaging in cyberbullying, trolling or scamming; avoiding plagiarism; and supporting others' positive digital identity.

Protection of intellectual rights and property: Mindful sharing of creative and intellectual work; knowing and using creative commons as well as innate copyright protections. (ISTE, 2018)

Questions to consider as you improve your digital agency:

What does it mean to be safe, legal and ethical with digital tools?

How do we model ethical technology integration?

Who checks for fair use and copyright in my courses?

How do we cultivate a mentoring relationship that leads to responsible and thoughtful technology use?

How do we convey to students the significance of the concept of intellectual rights and property?

Why is it important to connect this conversation to citation styles (e.g. APA, MLA, Chicago)?