Curing Copycats

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Digital citizenship

“Informed and participatory citizens whose online behaviours uphold standards for legal, ethical, safe, responsible, respectful use of technology.” (O’Connell, 2012)

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Nine themes of digital citizenshipRibble, M. (2012)

• Digital access• Digital commerce• Digital communication• Digital literacy• Digital etiquette• Digital law• Digital rights and responsibilities• Digital health and wellness• Digital security (self-protection)

Plagiarism Digital law

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Copyright

Why bother?

Children need adults to model and teach them about lawful and ethical behaviour in the 21st Century.

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A breach of copyright could cost our school tens of thousands of dollars.

Numeracy budget

Literacy budget

Library budget

Sports budget

Professional development budget

Supplies budget

Why bother?

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Recognise and acknowledge

the problem/issue

Decide to take action as a school

Educate staff and students on their legal and ethical responsibilities

Equip staff and students with tools to implement legal and ethically correct behaviour

Small steps

Tools: Discover, practice, share, embedCopyright free images sources

• Google images advanced search• WPClipart - free clipart @ http://www.wpclipart.com• Utilise the creative commons community @

http://creativecommons.org.au/ • Encourage students to create their own images

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Tools: Discover, practice, share, embed

Avoiding plagiarism• Design deep thinking tasks that do not encourage a cut and paste

response (SCAN )• Model and explicitly teach correct referencing of sources (citing

and bibliography)• Undertake professional development using the online training

guide “All my own work” from NSW Board of studies @ http://amow.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au

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What will you teach your students?

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• What are you modelling to your students and what simple changes could you make to improve this?

• Do we need to develop a school policy to ensure that the teaching of digital law is embedded in our teaching programs and explicitly taught?

• Do we need to hold a parent information session and/or include basic information on our school website?

Questions

Recommended reading1. Australian copyright council (2010). Australian Copyright Council. Retrieved from

http://www.copyright.org.au/

2. Grantham, C. (2009). Plagiarism: taking the lead. Access, 23 (1), 5-8, 12. Retrieved from http://web.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.csu.edu.au/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=315422ec-0124-4c07-9888-2c4024da6fdc%40sessionmgr12&vid=2&hid=11

3. Saaab, S. (2009). Copyright: your questions answered . Access, 23 (1), 17-20. Retrieved from http://web.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.csu.edu.au/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=1278face-805b-44dd-beef-835b773051e6%40sessionmgr4&vid=2&hid=11

4. Saab, S. (2010). Copyright basics for teacher librarians. Access, 24 (4),38-43. Retrieved from http://web.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.csu.edu.au/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=d3f15a0a-f0b3-4049-84b0-e7ba5e93e827%40sessionmgr4&vid=2&hid=11

5. Smart copying - http://www.smartcopying.edu.au/scw/go