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IT’S

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CONNECTACEC 2012

Terry O’Brien

Bruce Stavert

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“Children will be children - pushing boundaries and taking risks…

At a public swimming pool we have gates, have lifeguards and shallow ends, but we also teach children how to swim.” - Dr Tanya Byron

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Cyber bullying

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http://www.keepcontrol.eu/default.html?lang=uk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvEE3bkePuE&feature=related

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ_f7yOAzPU&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIAJM3Qrgec&feature=related

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Cyber safety and privacy is only taught at the whim of individual teachers

ACMA lists these topics as essential for teens: • Unwanted contact, • Cyberbullying, • Online friends, • Playing games online—keeping the balance, • Digital footprint, • P2P/filesharing, • Inappropriate content, • Financial security and online shopping, • Identity theft.

http://www.cybersmart.gov.au/

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http://www.staysmartonline.gov.au

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http://www.thinkuknow.org.au/site/kids.asp

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSnXE2791yg

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• It recognises young people as stakeholders in positive internet use. The rules are the same for being a good real world citizen: Obey the law, have respect for others, act civilly and sensibly.”

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What is digital citizenship?

“Digital citizenship [is] about building safe spaces and communities, understanding how to manage personal information, and … using your online presence to grow and shape your world in a safe, creative way...”

http://www.digizen.org/• hthttp://www.digizen.org/tp://www.digizen.org/digizen.org.u//

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Emerging literature supports the value of social networking sites for young people’s development and argues that instead of blocking access as the response to dealing

with potential illegal and antisocial behaviour, educators should be supporting young people to recognise, manage and negotiate risks for themselves through

developmental teaching programs on digital media literacy.

CIA's "Facebook" Program Dramatically Cut Agency's Costs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJ380SHZvYU

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Shaping behaviour in a digital worldWith students spending significant time in both the real and virtual worlds, it is becoming important for schools to teach young people what it means to be a good digital citizen and to be safe and responsible users of the internet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGlrAhtQC24

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Domain 1: DIGITAL CONDUCT

Domain 2: DIGITAL FOOTPRINT

Domain 3: DIGITAL RELATIONSHIPS

Domain 5: DIGITAL LAW

Domain 4: DIGITAL HEALTH AND WELLBEING

Domain 6: DIGITAL FINANCIAL LITERACY

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Students will learn how to:1. behave appropriately and recognise inappropriate behaviour

online2. understand the trail that is left by digital activities when

maintaining an online presence3. stay safe in online relationships and recognise and report

inappropriate and predatory behaviour4. maintain a healthy and balanced lifestyle while using digital

technologies5. stay within the law while working and socialising online,

including copyright6. use digital technologies to safely and appropriately manage

money and shop online.

The domains of digital citizenship

stay safe and secure and be active in preventing bullying while online

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http://www.digitalcitizenship.nsw.edu.au/

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Social Networking and Digital Citizenship Trial

2010

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Trial Design

• Yr 10 students at five schools• Post School Certificate• 12/11/10 to 9/12/10• Filtering allowed social

networking and YouTube when off school premises

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School No. of Year 10 Students

Lower SES city HS 253

Country High School 128

City Technology HS 327Selective HS (one class only) 24

Lower SES city HS 136Total 868

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Digital Citizenship Resources

• Year 10 students in the trial schools were required to undertake the Digital Citizenship lessons

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Digital Citizenship Resources

• To train teachers:–video conference InFocus session

developed and advertised state wide to all schools.

–asynchronous Moodle course (approx. 5 hours)

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Evaluation

• Students, teachers and parents–Online surveys–Focus groups

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Evaluation outcomes - students

Percentage of total social networking/ file sharing site hits on each site

Website Number of

hits

% of total

Facebook 67,048 75.9%

Youtube 17,599 19.9%

Ninemsn 1,277 1.4%

Yahoo 1,113 1.2%

Google Mail not via DET Portal 737 0.8%

Hotmail/Mail.live (Microsoft) 364 0.4%

Flickr 107 0.1%

Myspace 37 0.04%

Total hits on social networking/ file sharing sites 88,282

100%

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As a result of the Digital Citizenship online lessons I completed, I now know more about

Strongly disagree

Disagree Not Sure

Agree Strongly agree

The need for on-line security 6% 7% 10% 47% 30%

How to be more secure online 6% 10% 12% 38% 34%

How to make my password secure

6% 8% 11% 40% 35%

The need to build a positive digital footprint

3% 8% 20% 40% 28%

Netiquette 7% 6% 25% 47% 16%

The potential benefits of social networking, chatrooms and filesharing sites

6% 7% 17% 47% 24%

The potential dangers of social network sites and chatrooms

8% 6% 11% 44% 31%

Steps to take before joining such sites

6% 10% 11% 51% 22%

How to use security settings on social network sites

4% 8% 15% 48% 25%

Social media marketing 3% 9% 29% 40% 18%

Cyber bullying and harassment 7% 8% 15% 43% 28%

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As a result of the Digital Citizenship online lessons I completed, I will now be more careful about

Strongly disagree

Disagree

Not Sure

Agree Strongly agree

on-line security 3% 6% 6% 52% 34%

password security 4% 4% 4% 47% 39%

my personal digital footprint (including photographs etc.)

3% 6% 16% 40% 35%

netiquette 3% 7% 24% 42% 25%

security settings on social network sites

4% 2% 3% 57% 33%

using chatrooms 6% 4% 9% 52% 29%

giving personal information 6% 4% 6% 40% 44%

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Parent Survey When do you think students should commence Digital Citizenship education?

Kindergarten   11 8%

Years 1 or 2   14 10%

Years 3 or 4   14 10%

Years 5 or 6   31 23%

Years 7 or 8   32 24%

Years 9 or10   15 11%

Unsure   17 13%

Total 134 100%

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Teacher Survey When do you think students should commence Digital Citizenship education?

Kindergarten   3 8%

Years 1 or 2   3 8%

Years 3 or 4   9 23%

Years 5 or 6   15 38%

Years 7 or 8   8 21%

Years 9 or10   1 3%

Unsure   0 0%

Total 39 100%

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Conclusions

Within the limits of this study it is clear that the Digital Citizenship learning materials were remarkably successful for:– increasing knowledge – changing behaviour

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Digital citizenship will be included in the Australian

Curriculum.

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The Australian Curriculum includes seven general capabilities:

Literacy

Numeracy

Information and communication technology (ICT) competence

Critical and creative thinking

Ethical behaviour

Personal and social competence

Intercultural understanding

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Personal and social capability

Organising elements

General capabilities in the Australian Curriculum - January 2012 p 68

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Ethical Behaviour

Organising elements

General capabilities in the Australian Curriculum - January 2012 p 79

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ICT competence Organising elements

General capabilities in the Australian Curriculum - January 2012 p 45

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Students develop ICT capability within a context of social and ethical protocols and practice. This element involves students in developing an understanding of:

• intellectual property pertaining to digital information

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• digital information security, including the responsibility to:– protect the rights, identity, privacy and

emotional safety of online audiences– avoid and prevent cyberbullying– ensure security of self and/or others– respect audiences, being aware of the

portrayal of self and others

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