Chapter 3 - Ict Policies and Safety Issues in Teaching Learning
Chapter 3 - Ict Policies and Safety Issues in Teaching Learning
ISSUES IN TEACHING
LEARNING
Chapter 3
Topics to be discussed….
+ICT National or International Policies that are applicable
to teaching and learning
+Safety issues in ICT
+ Data Privacy Act of 2012
+ Cyberbullying Law
+Uses of ICT Policies in the teaching and learning
environment
Lesson Objectives
+ Discussed some ICT policies and explained their implications to
teaching and learning
+ Explained some issues relate to ICT policies
+ Identified safety concerns on Internet including digital safety
rules.
+ Identified and explained safety issues on the use of ICT
+ Listed and applied e-safety in the use of ICT
Definition of ICT Policy
+ Defined “policy” as a course of action, adopted and pursued by a
government, party, ruler, statesman. It is any course of action adopted as
expedient or advantageous. Its operational definition of a policy is a plan of
action to guide and achieve outcomes.
- The Oxford English Dictionary
+Telecommunications
Three Main Areas (Telephone)
in the use of ICT
+Broadcasting (Radio
Principles and and Television)
Guidelines
+Internet
The New ICT Technologies
Include telephones (with fax) and the Telephone system, radio and TV
broadcasting of radio and television often broadcasting are needed in this category
through satellites.
Networking Technologies
Facebook has
had several
revisions on its
privacy policies
INFORMATION PRIVACY
According to a BBC news
article in 2015, Facebook
claims that protecting the
privacy of people and
their information on
Facebook is one of its
highest priorities.
INFORMATION PRIVACY
HOWEVER, it is not
Facebook that has come
under fire. It is the
Facebook quizzes made
available to everyone
offering answers to trivial
Who is your celebrity look-a-like?
questions.
INFORMATION PRIVACY
APPARENTLY, by taking the Word
Cloud Quiz, you have given the game
developers access to everything in your
Facebook profile including your name,
profile picture, age, sex, birthday, entire
friends list, everything you have posted
on your timeline, all of your photos,
home town, education and etc.
DATA PRIVACY ACT 10173