Overview |
Integrating Internet Safety and Digital Ethics into the high school classroom includes:
- Periodically throughout the year observe national, state and local net safety events with specialized activities.
- Tie lesson content with cyber character education. Classroom lessons and lab time provide "snippets" on net safety focus points.
- Upper teenage level discussions of social issues of the web and how they relate to their social lives offline.
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General Activities Include |
- Watch videos and engage in discussion about net safety topics.
- Use current events and classroom related topics to initiate discussion on their relationships to the internet, digital ethics and cyber character.
- Teachable moments including web based research for all classes, language arts activities, Health/PE(Family Life), Social Studies/Government projects.
- Use web2.0 tools for collaborations with other students including blogs.
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9-12 Focus Points |
- Cyber Character: Social Networking
- Cyber Security
- Online Communications: Email, IM, Chat Rooms, Blogs, Gaming
- Cyber Predators
- Intellectual Property & Fair Use
- Career/Job ethics in relation to cyber character
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Focus Point #1 Cyber Character: Social Networking |
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Objectives:
- Students will be able to draw correlations between cyber and physical communities.
- Students will be made aware of the laws and rules applicable to cyber and physical communities.
- Students will distinguish between appropriate vs. inappropriate online materials.
- Students will discuss issues related to cyber bullying and cyber ethics.
- Students will critique privacy issues as they relate to safe website design.
Activities/Resources:
- Discuss the computer safety rules that are posted in the lab and the division Acceptable Use Agreement.
- Use web pages to explore various risks that teens may encounter on the internet. (See high school resources below.)
- Photojournalism, Communications classes: Spotswood High School video clips on net safety for voting in class "which one did you like best and why"
- Students can create their own public service announcement after viewing PSA from web. Example: SHS PSAs
- Government class (Grade 12): Resource Officer "Class Action" covers topics including personal information online and cyberbullying
- English class (Grade 9): 9th grade Orientation by Media Specialist and ITRT includes discussions on research, passwords, online communities
- Discussion on passwords and compromising your accounts. Video Netsmartz: Broken Friendships
Terminology: cyber bully, cyber harrassment privacy, "social networking"
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Focus Point #2 Cyber Security
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Objectives:
- Students will discuss issues related to identity theft, malicious code, phishing and pharming, and spyware.
- Students may also relate current event issues to Homeland Security, National Student Watch, and Acceptable Use Policies.
- Students examine issues with privacy and protecting personal data.
Activities:
- Discuss the computer safety rules that are posted in the lab and the division Acceptable Use Agreement.
- Government class (Grade 12): Resource Officer "Class Action" covers topics including personal information online and cyberbullying
- Language Arts Project(essay, video story/PSA, blog discussion group) on identity theft using the FTC page for content
- Discuss of student use of tool: Google. Google and Other Mashups ... "What are they doing with your information?" MasterPlan and the Power of Google
Terminology: identity theft, malicious code, phishing, pharming, spyware, fraud, urban legend
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Focus Point #3 Personal Safety: Online Communications, Email, IM, Chat Rooms, Blogs, Gaming
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Objectives:
- Students will learn what they should and should not do to keep themselves safe while engaging in online communications.
- Students will understand the danger of choosing the wrong friends to interact with online.
- Students will understand issues concerning misinformation including fraud, urban legends and spam.
Activities:
- Discuss the computer safety rules that are posted in the lab and the division Acceptable Use Agreement.
- Computer Literacy classes discuss gaming ethics and interactions with malcontents known as griefers and cyberbullys
- Government class (Grade 12): Resource Officer "Class Action" covers topics including personal information online and cyberbullying
- Sociology class or health class (9th): harrassment and appropriate verbal communication(Netsmartz video (You Can't Take It Back)
- English class (Grade 9): 9th grade Orientation by Media Specialist and ITRT includes discussions on research, passwords, online communities
- AirDogs game from WebWiseKids.org
- Discussion of online crime, urban legends and fraud using www.snopes.com
Terminology: AUP, "urban legend", hoax, "good vs bad password", harrassment, griefer, dissing, cyberbully
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Focus Point #4 Personal Safety: Cyber Predators
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Objectives:
- Students will be made aware of characteristics and grooming processes of online predators.
- Students will research current statistics on internet safety and predator activity on the web including DOPA.
- Students will examine the types of "risky behavior" that attract predators. The "Top Five Risky Behaviors to Avoid"
Activities:
- Sociology class or Health/PE class: View and discuss Katies story: WebWiseKids.org - Katie's Story Video-Top Rated-Real Person
- Class Discussion on how young people represent themselves online. Use MySpace as a resource to start a conversation about contemporary fashion, ideals, and media images.
- Sociology class, family life class or any class teaching communication: Use the document "Online Predators and Their Victims" as a reference point for class discussion, short papers, etc.
- Using Danah Boyd's article at Knowledge Tree, discuss why the web makes it more dangerous to live socially in public.
Terminology: cyber bully, disclocure, privacy, "social networking", "privacy setting", stalker, DOPA
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Additional Resources for High School Classroom Use
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Related Standards Of Learning
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- C/T 9-12.3 The student will demonstrate knowledge of ethical, cultural, and societal issues related to technology.
- C/T 9-12.4 The student will practice responsible use of technology systems, information, and software.
- C/T 9-12.6 The student will use technology to locate, evaluate, and collect information from a variety of sources.
- C/T 9-12.7 The student will evaluate and select newinformation resources and technological innovations based on the appropriateness for specific tasks.
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