This document discusses the importance of teaching digital citizenship and digital law to students. It outlines nine themes of digital citizenship, including digital access, communication, literacy, and security. The document emphasizes that students need guidance on lawful and ethical online behavior. It recommends that schools take steps to address this issue, such as educating staff and students on their legal responsibilities and providing tools to practice correct attribution of sources and avoid plagiarism. Specific resources are suggested for finding copyright-free images and learning about copyright guidelines. The document poses questions about modeling good practices and developing school policies on teaching digital law.

1. Curing Copycats
http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/images/view_photog.php?photogid=1836

2. Digital citizenship
“Informed and participatory citizens whose online
behaviours uphold standards for
legal, ethical, safe, responsible, respectful use of
technology.” (O’Connell, 2012)
Image attribution: 'Join Our Team‘ http://www.flickr.com/photos/49333396@N06/4859647454

3. Nine themes of digital citizenship
Ribble, 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)

4. Digital law
Image attribution: 'Stealing‘ http://www.flickr.com/photos/33128961@N00/157458385

5. Why bother?
Children need adults to model and teach them about
lawful and ethical behaviour in the 21st Century.
Image attribution: 'Follow Ewe - Follow me...:O)‘ http://www.flickr.com/photos/66164549@N00/2414071202

6. Why bother?
A breach of copyright could cost our
school tens of thousands of dollars.
Image attribution: http://www.wpclipart.com/money/bag_of_money.png.html

7. Small steps
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
Image attribution: 'These Feet were Made for Walking (Explored)‘ http://www.flickr.com/photos/21784565@N04/3677057826

8. Tools: Discover, practice, share, embed
Copyright 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
Image attribution: '2500 Creative Commons Licenses‘ Image: 'Nico'
ttp://www.flickr.com/photos/55943778@N00/3640362081 http://www.flickr.com/photos/20741443@N00/6000662514

9. Tools: Discover, practice, share, embed
Image attribution: 'Showing Teekuhtoo how to use the Web‘ http://www.flickr.com/photos/35948261@N00/2560490050
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

10. What will
you teach
your
students?
http://www.wpclipart.com/education/signs/minds_under_
http://www.wpclipart.com/holiday/election_Day/scales/scales_2.png.html construction.png.html

11. Questions
• 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?

12. Recommended reading
1. 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