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Respectful Learning
Respectful Learning
When you post something online it is important to remember that other people read what you say. Just like the image here shows, there is a person on the other side of the screen who is reading or seeing what you have written or created. Treating others the way you would like to be treated along with being accountable, or taking responsibility, for your own actions means that you are developing empathy and making smart decisions for yourself and others (NSW Department of Education, n.d. -a).
Practice Time!
Practice Time!
As someone who is kind in their words and actions, can you be an upstander?
An upstander is someone who chooses to support a person who is being abused or harmed (eSafety Commissioner, n.d.). It means that when you see something that is not okay, like someone making hurtful comments about someone in a game, you reach out to the person who is being targeted to check if they are okay. It may also mean that you speak up online to say that the behaviour is not okay or call in other support, like a parent or teacher (eSafety Commissioner, n.d.). If you want to find out more about how to be an upstander have a look at Be an upstander .
Practice your skills of being an upstander by playing Evolve by Digital Passport (Common Sense Education, n.d.).
Digital Passport™ is an award-winning suite of engaging interactive games that address critical issues for students in today's digital world. Teach your students the ins and outs of digital learning, online communication, and online safety, and help them build lifelong digital skills.www.digitalpassport.org/evolve.htmlCopyright - what is it?
Copyright - what is it?
You may have heard of something called Copyright before, but do you understand what it is?
Copyright is a legal right which people who create items like a song or a movie have when deciding how others can use their item (NSW Department of Education, n.d.-b). For example, movies which you see in the cinema can’t just be seen on every screen you own, because while the movie has been made to entertain it has also been designed to provide an income for the moviemakers, actors and many more involved in the production. If you watch the movie at home, you are taking away the production’s right to make money. If you don’t do the right thing with other people’s intellectual property (something they have made) you break copyright laws and there are serious consequences of that.
Why not watch and reflect on what is shared at BTN: Copyright: your right to copy or not? (ABC Education, 2022)?
As a respectful digital learner you care about doing the right thing, and are ethical. To do this you make sure you acknowledge other people’s work and follow the Copyright restrictions put on it.
To help you make the right decision with other people's photos and images you can use a tool called Creative Commons which is explained in this video (Minicozzi, 2015).
Credit: Minicozzi, 2015
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