Activity 10

Activity 10

Ethical Dilemma:

As teachers use different social media platforms to display children work and connect with link minded people all over the world.
As we hand out the Cyber safety agreement that allows the use of children's faces and work to be up loaded online there is always 1 child's parent who will con consent. There are many reasons for this. One could be for legal reasons through SYFS etc, else it can be just for parent choice.

This year my Ethical dilemma has been around this. We use twitter, instagram and blogger in class. We make videos, read stories, post pictures of faces and work and mention names online. I have 1 girl who does not have consent. This means that her group work (sometimes videos) can't be shared. I have to take everything twice (one with her and one without her). The real matter or fact is not the hassle it causes me but the issue is that this girl misses out on displaying her work outside of the physical classroom environment and gets excluded from movie making tasks. Any class photo we take or video we have to exclude her.

What I need to do is sit down with her caregivers and discuss why it is important for them and myself and see if we could compromise. If we only upload group work or mention names etc.
I was thinking of the check list and made this:

I agree to:

-Have my childs name published.
-Have shared work published.
-Have video work published.
-Have  still images published
-Have distant still images or videos published.
-Publish only to blogger.

This could provide those non consent children to have the room to discover the internet.

If this compromise does not work I use Faceblur an google extension app for stills and videos to blur faces and change the name on comments.

"your kids' best online protection is you. By talking to them about potential online dangers and monitoring their computer use, you'll help them surf the Internet safely" (Kidshealth.org). It is important that children are taught internet safety so they can be positive on-line citizens.


References:

Kids health- http://kidshealth.org/parent/positive/family/net_safety.html