Legal,+Safe+and+Ethical+Guidelines

====The use of ICTs are modelled to ensure that students and educators consistently practice legal, safe and ethical behaviour. When working online it is essential that individuals are aware of the following principles: [|copyright guidelines], fair use rule, [|privacy], [|safety], basic ethics, codes of practice, policies and legislations. The learning manager consistently models safe and legal practices to ensure that students are aware of the responsible practices that they need to engage with when working with ICT in online environments. Students and educators were made aware of the [|possible risks] and challenges that surround the use of technology and positive practices to avoid such issues. This was achieved through discussion and observation of practices as well as, exploring and deconstructing the following sites: [|//Safety Tips for Kids//] and [|//Healthy Computing//]//, to// create a class poster using Glogster (Queensland Government, 2012). The Queensland Government [|Smart Classrooms] initiative encompasses the [|Student ICT Expectations] document that supports the early development of knowledge and understanding surrounding ethical, safe and responsible practices across all year junctures(Queensland Government, 2009). The detailed learning sequence embeds the deliberate instruction and development of a number of the ICT expectations. According to Northern Territory Government (2009, p.1) “being ICT literate means being able to choose and use ICT responsibly and ethically, to support critical and creative thinking about information and about communication as citizens of the global community”. Government legislations and policies uphold the importance of educator’s comprehensive knowledge and understanding of these laws and practices. ====

====To successfully monitor safe and legal activity of students it was ensured that students were only allowed access to secure sites. According to Queensland Government (2010) online ICTs need to be conducted within a learning environment that enhances learning through a safe and secure medium.The class Wikispace was set to private to create a secure environment for the learners to actively interpret, analyse and communicate knowledge. It was mandatory that learners’ work was only created and accessed through private domains and was not openly displayed online without consent of the learners parents or guardians (Department of Education and Training, 2002). ====