In her article "CyberEthics: The New Frontier" Janna J. Baum provides suggestions for teachers to use when teaching students to be responsible when on-line. These suggestions include: Initiating a CyberEthics curriculum, Teaching students about CyberEthics in the classroom, Using the Internet as a tool when teaching CyberEthics, Creating an acceptable use policy, and Having students pledge to be responsible and honest when on-line.
By following Baum's tips teachers can guide their students and help to establish a line for acceptable Internet use.
Comments by Jennifer Guterson
Question for Comments: What are some techniques you believe would be effective when teaching students to be responsible when they are on-line?
For more information try these sites:
- Rules in Cyberspace This site provides information for teachers and is student friendly too!
- Cyberethics for Teachers This site provides a lesson plan to teach students about cyber crime.
- Resources for CyberEthics This site contains many links for more information.
4 comments:
I would just be honest with my students about safety issues with the WWW. Explain that it is accessable to anyone in the world and that sharing information is dangerous and should not be done. Good question Jenn :)
Exactly what I would do Trace! Why beat around the bush and risk confusion? We need to let students know that they need to be careful on-line.
Student's should know that it is not fair to just use another person's work without giving credit to the author. To explain this to my students I would use their work as an example. How would it feel if you wrote an essay for class and someone erased your name and put theirs on it? This example is extreme but it goes to show that the work isn't their and the student who had wrote the essay was not credited for their work.
I would suggest having my class come up with a set of guidlines for using the internet and technology in general. Of coarse I would have a few that I would add, but hopefully having the students do this would get them thinking about using technology responsibly. I agree with Tracy as well in telling the students and clean and honest 'just' of the WWW right off the bat.
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