INFORMATION ETHICS

The purpose of the web guide is to inform staff at a Primary Sydney Catholic School (SCS) of their rights and responsibilities as digital citizens and how to be ethical participants and consumers of online information and images.

Why is information ethics important?

The Digital Learning Environment provides an authentic learning experience for our students embedded with strong pedagogical approaches. Information Ethics is an essential component of being a Good Digital Citizen, where we are encouraged to act ethically, respectfully and responsibly, whilst using technology and accessing digital resources to support and meet the needs of our community.

The Australian Curriculum (2019) defines a digital citizen as “a person who has the knowledge and skills to effectively use digital technologies to communicate with others, participate in society and create and consume digital content.”

WHERE DOES INFORMATION ETHICS FIT INTO OUR COMMUNITY?

Our Values and Teaching Principles

The Working Together Principle;

The Making The World a Better Place Principle;

and The Technology Principle,

These specific principles remind us in our learning community it is important to respect others, promote equality and inclusiveness, value social justice and fairness and use technology responsibly.

SCS Code of Professional Conduct Policy

Australian Curriculum - General Capabilities - ICT Capabilities

Applying social and ethical protocols and practices when using ICT

Information Ethics was designed and written by Simone Johnston.

Simone is a Teacher Librarian at a Sydney Catholic Primary School. She has recently completed her Master of Education (Teacher Librarianship) at Charles Sturt University. Simone can be contacted via Twitter @johnston_simone

Information Ethics by Johnston, S. is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.