Mini Lesson 1 - Ethical Use of Information
In this first mini-lesson, we'll be learning about the importance of being ethical when using technology. So many students, teachers, and professionals skip over ethics when creating things, using technology, or sharing information. We want to start off by learning what is right and what is wrong.
Essential Question
Why is it so important to be ethical when using technology? How can we be held responsible when using technology to share information with others?
ISTE Standards for Students
2. Communication and collaboration
Students use digital media and environments to communicate and work collaboratively, including at a distance, to support individual learning and contribute to the learning of others.
a. Interact, collaborate, and publish with peers, experts, or others employing a variety of digital environments and media
b. Communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences using a variety of media and formats
c. Develop cultural understanding and global awareness by engaging with learners of other cultures
d. Contribute to project teams to produce original works or solve problems
3. Research and information fluency
Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information.
a. Plan strategies to guide inquiry
b. Locate, organize, analyze, evaluate, synthesize, and ethically use information from a variety of sources and media
c. Evaluate and select information sources and digital tools based on the appropriateness to specific tasks
d. Process data and report results
5. Digital citizenship
Students understand human, cultural, and societal issues related to technology and practice legal and ethical behavior.
a. Advocate and practice safe, legal, and responsible use of information and technology
b. Exhibit a positive attitude toward using technology that supports collaboration, learning, and productivity
c. Demonstrate personal responsibility for lifelong learning
d. Exhibit leadership for digital citizenship
Students use digital media and environments to communicate and work collaboratively, including at a distance, to support individual learning and contribute to the learning of others.
a. Interact, collaborate, and publish with peers, experts, or others employing a variety of digital environments and media
b. Communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences using a variety of media and formats
c. Develop cultural understanding and global awareness by engaging with learners of other cultures
d. Contribute to project teams to produce original works or solve problems
3. Research and information fluency
Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information.
a. Plan strategies to guide inquiry
b. Locate, organize, analyze, evaluate, synthesize, and ethically use information from a variety of sources and media
c. Evaluate and select information sources and digital tools based on the appropriateness to specific tasks
d. Process data and report results
5. Digital citizenship
Students understand human, cultural, and societal issues related to technology and practice legal and ethical behavior.
a. Advocate and practice safe, legal, and responsible use of information and technology
b. Exhibit a positive attitude toward using technology that supports collaboration, learning, and productivity
c. Demonstrate personal responsibility for lifelong learning
d. Exhibit leadership for digital citizenship
Resources
Your first job will be to look through the curation of ethical use resources. You must read through at least 5 of the resources but feel free to read more!
Curated List of Ethical Resources
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Discussion
After reading through the curated collection of resources, did you find anything surprising? If you learned something about ethical use, share it here. We will use TodaysMeet for our discussion postings. If you did not learn anything, please share a past experience that you had with someone being unethical with technology. Keep it anonymous though!
Assignment
For your assessment, you will create an infographic to convey a key concept you learned about the ethical use of information. Your infographic will be graded out of 12 points based on the rubric below. I suggest using Pictochart or Venngage to create your infographic but feel free to use anything. Here is an example from Turnitin.