Ethics, Issues and ICT
By Year 2, students understand the role of some ICT in society. They develop and apply ethical, safe and responsible practices when working with ICT in online and stand-alone environments.
By the end of Year 2 students:
Apply social, ethical and safe practices when working with ICT; they:
- understand safe and responsible ICT practices
- are aware of ethical and unethical ICT communications including appropriate choice of language in emails
- understand that the Internet can be a place for sharing material; and recognise that people create information resources and it is not appropriate to copy the work of others
- recognise the significance of private passwords and use and maintain passwords for access to files and the school network
- relate stranger danger to online environments and recognise the need to take care in sharing personal information
- show an understanding of netiquette by using positive social skills and considering others while online
- comply with school expectations and protocols when using ICT
Reflect on how ICT are used in the community and identify ways they can impact people; they:
- reflect on individual use of ICT to ensure personal safety and information security
Use ethical, safe and responsible practices when working with ICT
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Develop an understanding of safe and responsible ICT practices through discussion and observation of practice. |
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Visit Safety Tips for Kids at and Healthy Computing. Contribute ideas or suggestions to create a class poster titled Internet Safety Tips for Kids. Ideas include:
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Acting in role as an expert, present a talk on one of the following:
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Draw diagrams illustrating correct and incorrect posture for working at the computer. |
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Follow teacher directions to locate and record the name of the author/creator and the address of a website used during research. List these details as a simple bibliography. |
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Use simple procedures to identify ownership of work (for example, record their name on a document or include their name in filename). |
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