Digital Citizen
At St Paul's College, internet and network services are used to enhance teaching and learning.
St Paul's has a 'no bullying' policy and all steps are taken to create a safe and friendly school. This includes zero tolerance for online harassment.
In order to provide a cyber safe learning environment and a culture that is aware of cyber danger the College has put a number of initiatives in place.
Students:
sign an agreement that state that they have read and understand the College's Rules of Acceptable Use of Internet and Network Services.
are exposed to cyber safety multimodal texts in pastoral care and in personal development, health and physical education units of study.
view daily notice power point that has information about cyber safety and cyber bullying.
USE Drop Down to find resources on Social Media and Cyber Safety
Clickview online - 14mins Resilience and Digital Citizenship
ISSUES IN SOCIETY - Social media and Young people
Information Resource Centre NF- 302.23 SOC. ONLINE DESTINY
Digital citizenship vs digital literacy - is there a difference?
Some digital literacy definitions:
2012 – Digital Literacy is the ability to use information and communication technologies to find, evaluate, create, and communicate information, requiring both cognitive and technical skills
2015 – “The ability to interpret and design nuanced communication across fluid digital forms” Teach Thought
2017 – There are four levels of digital literacy according to The New Work Order (p30), including:
- A digital muggle, requiring no skills;
- A digital citizen, who uses technology to communicate, find information and transact;
- A digital worker, who configures (such as website design or publication design) and uses digital systems; and
- A digital maker, who builds and creates digital technology (for example JavaScript, HTML, Python and other programing tools) Foundation for Young Australians.
Some digital citizenship definitions:
“the quality of habits, actions and consumption patterns that impact the ecology of digital content and communities” Teach thought
“Digital citizenship can be defined as the norms of behavior with regard to technology use.” Ribble’s nine elements
Digital citizenship is about confident and positive engagement with digital technology. A digital citizen is a person with the skills and knowledge to effectively use digital technologies to participate in society, communicate with others and create and consume digital content. Office of the eSafety Commissioner
free course on digital citizenship
June Wall, Consultant
St Paul's students can learn alot from Kindy Kids
Here are some tips on how to recognise malicious emails:
Check who the email has been sent to - Are lots of other users included in the cc: or to: fields that you don't recognise?
· Check the Senders address – Does the sender address look familiar?
· Hover Over Links - One quick way to check whether it is safe to click is to hover over the link with your mouse. Don't click, just wait to see what the full URL is, does the URL look weird and different?
· Read the Domain Carefully - Read the domain name carefully, because many criminals like to use misspelled names, such as paypl.com, ctibank.com, and event factbook.com
· Verify Links - Perhaps you've hovered over the links, read the URL, and it still looks legit. Or maybe the URL from Twitter is using a URL shortening service such as bit.ly, t.co, etc, so hovering doesn't help. You can cut-and-paste that link into getlinkinfo.com, a site that follows the link for you and tells you all the redirects.