Frances Bell’s Blog

This very interesting post http://edorigami.edublogs.org/2009/05/21/digital-citizen-acceptable-use-agreement/provoked a bit of discussion on Twitter this morning.  Andrew Churches has done some useful work on deriving an Acceptable Use Policy based on 6 tenets of digital citizenship.
“The Digital Citizen will follow six tenets of citizenship.

Respect yourself

Protect yourself

Respect others

Protect others

Don’t steal

Honour Intellectual property.” http://edorigami.edublogs.org/2009/05/04/the-digital-citizen/

I really like those tenets as, apart [...]

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Stephen Downes wrote in Getting Down to It about a Code of Ethics posted by Dave Warlick
“Dave Warlick posts a “Student and Teacher Information Code of Ethics.” I personally think that a code of ethics is not useful, because if one believes in the ethics, the coded is not needed, and if one doesn’t, the [...]

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