Technology for Teaching and

Learning 1
By:
Purita Bilbao, EdD
Ma. Asuncion Christine V. Dequilla, PhD
Daisy A. Rosano, PhD
Helen B. Boholano, LIB, EdD
 Module 7: Social, Ethical and Legal
Responsibilities in the Use of Technology
Tools and Resources
Module Outcomes:
1. Described the community of learners as citizens who
share and utilize digital materials
2. Practiced standard netiquette in sharing and utilizing
shared materials among learning communities
3. Identified examples of Intellectual Property Right in
educational setting
4. Showed, given examples, and observed social, ethical, and
legal responsibility
 Introduction
Technology has become an integral part of our lives. It
has created a great impact that whether we like it or not, we
have become prone to safety issues. Our privacy can be
intruded; our social relationships can be affected. But it is
not just enough that we keep ourselves safe, we should also
possess the skills on how we can act responsibly so as not to
pose harm to others.
 Lesson 1: Digital Citizenship vs. Global
Citizenship
Lesson Outcomes:
1. Recognized the five tenets of global digital citizenship and
the 9 elements of digital citizenship
2. Compared and contrasted one’s role as a citizen of a
community and that of a digital world
3. Shared ways on how one can observe social, ethical, and
legal responsibilities in the use of technology tools and
resources.
 Five Tenets of Global Digital Citizenship
(Ribble, 2017)
• Personal Responsibility
• Global Citizenship
• Digital Citizenship
• Altruistic Service
• Environmental Stewardship
 Personal Responsibility
Personal responsibility includes demonstrating how we
manage ourselves in matters such as personal finance, ethical
and moral boundaries, personal health and wellness, and
relationships of every kind, both online or offline.
For the student, this kind of responsibility means taking
ownership of his/her learning. Developing a sense of
accountability for lifelong learning in our students prepares
them for the workplace. These are places where they must
often think and act independently and take initiatives on their
own.
 Digital Citizenship
Since we are considered citizens in the community we live in, then as
users of the internet we can also call ourselves as citizens of the digital
world where we live, learn, and work in an interconnected manner.

A digital citizen adheres to guidelines that govern the ethical and

responsible use of technology and acts responsibly in all relationships
and interactions in the digital world.

Digital citizenship is an idea that all persons using the internet have civic
rights and responsibilities. It center around safe, savvy and ethical use of
technology.
 Digital Citizenship vs. Global Citizenship
A global citizen sees the world as a community in which all people
live and prosper together. He/she understands that his/her actions
contribute to the values of the entire planet and he/she is
concerned on how he/she participates in and contributes to the
entire world.
A global digital citizen is a responsible, ethical citizen leveraging
technology to foster community on a global scale through
connection and compassion.
We now communicate, collaborate, and celebrate across
all levels of society. We are now all global citizens.
 Global Citizenship
The students must realize,
that we aren’t isolated from each other anymore.

A deep understanding of this new global interconnectedness

can encourage them to be aware of the issues, traditions,
values, and cultures of other citizens. This leads to cultivating
understanding, acceptance, compassion, and humility.
 Altruistic service
Altruism is defined as “having a selfless concern for the
well-being of others”.

The practice of altruistic service provides opportunities for

the students to create meaningful connections to the real
world. It gives them the chance to reach out to others and do
things that can make a person’s experiences better or easier in
everyday life.
 Environmental Stewardship
This practice is all about common-sense values and an appreciation
for the beauty and majesty that surround us everyday.

This facet of Global Digital Citizenship encourages exploring how

we can practice the conscientious use of Earth’s resources.
Environmental stewardship encourages every student to take a
positive stand on personal, local, regional, national and international
actions regarding the preservation of what is essentially our
“environmental community”

This facet of global citizenship reinforces the idea that we have one
world that we all live on. It’s vital that we respect it and take steps to
ensure its beauty and longevity for all future generations (Watanabe-
Crockett, 2017)
 Nine (9) Elements of Digital Citizenship
• Digital Access
• Digital Commerce
• Digital Communication
• Digital Literacy
• Digital Etiquette
• Digital Law
• Digital Rights and Responsibilities
• Digital Health and Wellness
• Digital Security
Enrich your understanding by watching the Elements of Digital Citizenship

Link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYe11RNGtZU

 Digital Access
Equal digital rights and electronic access is the starting
point of digital citizenship.
The RA 10929 was signed on July 25, 2016 requiring all
public places in the country to have free internet access. Public
places in this act covers national and local government offices,
public basic education institutions, state universities and
colleges and TESDA technology institutions, public parks and
barangay reading centers, public airports and seaports, and
public transport terminals.
 Digital Commerce
Technology users need to understand that a large share of
market is being done electronically.
People shop through different websites and even do online
transactions for banking. Many other online transactions are
occurring including the illegal downloading, pornography, and
others thus a safe and secure online shopping and other commercial
transactions have to be done.
An e-commerce act or RA 8972 was signed in July 2000. This act
aims to facilitate domestic and international dealings, transactions,
arrangements, agreements, contracts and exchanges and storage of
information through the utilization of electronic, optical and similar
medium, mode, instrumentality and technology to recognize the
authenticity and reliability of electronic documents related to such
activities and to promote the universal use of electronic transaction
in the government and general public.
 Digital Communication
Digital communication is the electronic exchange of
communication which includes emailing, texting, instant
messaging, utilizing cell phones, etc.
As digital communication continues to grow, it is important
that we do not forget how to communicate face to face.

We have to utilize digital channels of communication to

enhance our ability to communicate, but do not allow it to
replace our ability to communicate.
 Digital Literacy
As digital citizens, it is our responsibility to develop and
continually enhance our technological knowledge.

We should support and encourage the acquisition of

technological knowledge by others.

We should model the positive and proactive use of technology

for good causes, personal and professional growth and
education.
 Digital Etiquette
This refers to the electronic standards of conduct or procedure.
This is often seen as one of the most pressing problems when
dealing with Digital Citizenship.
Imagine a teenager who spreads hate speech about a classmate
online. Or one who browses Facebook while attending mass.

Browsing social media site have become so addictive that young

people tend to lose distinction between what is appropriate and
what is not. It begins with rules. It is not enough however to create
rules and policies, everyone must be taught to become responsible
digital citizens.
 Digital Law
Digital law refers to the electronic responsibility for actions
and deeds.
Plagiarism, copyright infringement, hacking of
information, identity theft are crimes that are commonly
violated by online users.
As digital citizens, we must be aware of these illegal
behaviors so that we can avoid them and report those who
illegally engage in them.
 Digital Rights and Responsibilities
“For every right, there is a corresponding duty and for
every privilege, there is a corresponding responsibility.”
The privileges of digital access come along with
responsibility. Just as the Philippine constitution protects us
with rights of being Filipino citizens such as the right to
privacy, we also have the responsibility to be cautious in our
online activities such as posting our photos and videos online.
 Digital Health and Wellness
Our physical and psychological well-being in a digital
technology world should be a priority. Many illnesses have
become associated with technology use such as carpal tunnel
syndrome, eyestrain and childhood obesity as an effect of
children’s prolonged sitting in front of the computer screen.
Technology has also posed an inherent danger of addiction
and threat from online predators. Thus, children and adults
alike must learn how to protect themselves as digital citizens
through education and training.
 Digital Security
How to keep oneself secure in any community is a major
concern.
We need to protect the information that we provide online
with privacy setting and strong passwords.
We also need to have virus protection and backups of our
data, our money, and our identity from all hazards in the digital
world.
It is about building safe places and communities,
understanding how to manage personal information, and about
being savvy – using our online presence to grow and shape our
world in a safe, creative way, inspiring others to be the same
(Blackboard, 2018)
 Activity 1 Exploring the Virtual World
Explore the virtual world and experience what it is
to be a digital citizen. Log in to your social media site
and make a survey if your friends are observing or
not observing digital citizenship responsibly. Encode
your observation. The first line of your message
should indicate the activity no. and title. The second
line will be your full name. Third line will start your
observations.
 Lesson 2: Netizenship and Netiquette in
Online Communities
Lesson Outcomes:
1. Defined netizenship and netiquette.
2. Formulated a set of netiquette guidelines
3. Created a campaign video to promote netiquette
 A netizen, according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary (10
April 2024) is an active participant in the online community of
the internet.
The medical dictionary refers to it as internet citizen who
uses networked resources, which connotes civic responsibility
and participation.
Thus, netizenship means citizenship in the internet or in
the virtual world.
 Netiquette Guidelines
1. Protect your reputation. Whether in real or in virtual world, you are
the same person. Do only what is appropriate and share
information that does not harm you as a person.
2. Respect others. Respect begets respect. Treat everyone with
respect even if you have not seen him/her in person. Be
judicious about what you say on your own and other’s pages.
3. Express yourself clearly and use emoticons. Communication online is
difficult because emotions are not evident during
communication. Miscommunication usually takes place because
your facial expression and your body language cannot be seen
and the tone of your voice cannot be heard. Thus, emoticons
are readily available to show your emotions.
 Netiquette Guidelines
4. Remember the intellectual property. Ideas online are products
of intelligence of others. If you need to cite them,
acknowledge the authors. You definitely do not want to
steal properties of others.
5. Check spelling, grammar and punctuation. Since your face
cannot be seen online, you will be judged according to
your posts. Good writing means good manners. We do not
want to waste other people’s time reading our post which
is incomprehensible.
6. Pause before you post. Take note that whatever you post
becomes permanent therefore think twice or thrice before
you click send.
 Netiquette Guidelines
7. Do not share your personal information. Sharing your personal
information online is like going around the streets wearing a
shirt printed with your name, birthday, address, name of
parents, etc. You definitely do not want to reveal all these to
many people. Besides, providing all these publicly will make
you prone to identify theft.
8. Think about who or what you are representing. As a son/daughter,
you represent your family. As a student, you represent your
school. You do not want your family or school to be put to
shame by what you do.
 Each of us has a significant contribution to the kind
of community we have in the virtual world. As the
Association of American Medical Colleges (in
www.cyberbullying.org) says it, “We are responsible for
the ‘public face’ that the connected world sees”.
Consequently, our individual digital reputation is shaped
by our posts on social media.
 10 smart ways to deal with rude people
1. Remember, sometimes the rude person is you. ...
2. Don't take it personally (even if it's personal). ...
3. Find out why. ...
4. Be objective and analyze the rudeness. ...
5. Don't join the drama club. ...
6. Let it drop and walk away. ...
7. Consider offering help. ...
8. Understand rudeness as a habit.
 Activity 2. My Own Internet Etiquette

Online communication has completely changed the way we

interact with one another. Practices like flaming and trolling
can transform a friendly message board into a verbal
battleground. How can you fight online rudeness (kabastusan
or kawalang galang) and help bring courtesy and respect back
to the web?
List down your own internet etiquette. Encode your answer on
the same file used in answering Activity 1. The first line of
your message should indicate the activity no. and title. The
second line will be your full name. Third line will start
indicating your own internet etiquette to help bring courtesy
and respect back to the web.
 Lesson 3: Intellectual Property Rights on the
Development and Use of Digital Materials
Lesson Outcomes:
1. Identified examples of Intellectual Property Right in
educational setting
2. Defined the copyright laws
3. Cited consequences when copyright laws were
violated
 Plagiarism.org reported that…
Academic Integrity in High School

The Josephson Institute Center for Youth Ethics surveyed

43,000 high school students in public and private schools
and found that:
• 59% of high school students admitted cheating on a test
during the last year. 34% self-reported doing it more than two
times.
• One out of three high school students admitted that they
used the Internet to plagiarize an assignment
 Plagiarism.org reported that…
Academic Integrity in College and Graduate School
A survey of over 63,700 US undergraduate and 9,250 graduate students
over the course of three years (2002-2005)--conducted by Donald
McCabe, Rutgers University--revealed the following:
• 36% of undergraduates admit to “paraphrasing/copying few sentences
from Internet source without footnoting it.”
• 24% of graduate students self report doing the same
• 38% admit to “paraphrasing/copying few sentences from written source
without footnoting it.”
• 25% of graduate students self report doing the same
• 14% of students admit to “fabricating/falsifying a bibliography”
• 7% of graduate students self report doing the same
 Plagiarism.org reported that…

The Josephson Institute Center for Youth Ethics

surveyed 43,000 high school students in public and
private schools and found that:
One out of three high school students admitted that
they used the Internet to plagiarize an assignment.
 Activity 3a. Tips to Avoid Plagiarism
Go to plagiarism.org
Read the blog titled “4 Tips to easily avoid plagiarism”
After reading the tips, how will the tips help you
in your writing? Explain.
Encode your answer on the same file used in answering
Activity 1 and 2.
The first line of your message should indicate the activity no.
and title. The second line will be your full name. Third line will
start encoding your answer.
 Intellectual Property Right
Intellectual property protection is important in fostering
innovation. Without protection of ideas, individuals will not
be able to enjoy the full benefit of their inventions and they
would not be compensated for their creations. This encourages
innovation without the fear that a competitor will steal the
idea and/or take the credit for it.
Intellectual property, according to World Intellectual
Property Organization (WIPO), refers to creations of the mind
such as inventions; literary and artistic works; designs; and
symbols, names and images used in commerce.
 Intellectual Property Right
An intellectual property right is a right held by a
person or by a company to have exclusive rights over
these.
Internationally, these intellectual properties are
protected by the World Intellectual Property
Organization to which the Philippines is one of the 191
member states.
In our country, we have the Intellectual Property
Office of the Philippines (IPOPHIL) which administers
and implements state policies in relation to intellectual
property.
 Intellectual Property Right
Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines
(IPOPHIL) was created through Republic Act 8293.
This act defines intellectual property to include
copyright and related rights; trademarks and service
marks; geographic indications; industrial designs; patents;
layout designs (topographies) of integrated circuits; and
protection of undisclosed information. In the education
setting, copyright and related rights are the ones
applicable.
 Copyright
Copyright refers to the legal right given to the owner
of the original work or intellectual property. These
“works” are original intellectual creations in the literary
and artistic domain protected from the moment of their
creation which include the following:
1. books, pamphlets, articles and other writings;
2. periodicals and newspapers;
3. lectures, sermons, addresses, dissertations prepared for
oral delivery, whether or not reduced in writing or
other material forms;
 Copyright
4. letters;
5. dramatic or dramatico-musical compositions;
choreographic works or entertainment in dumb shows;
6. musical compositions, with or without words;
7. works of drawing, painting, architecture, sculpture,
engraving, lithography or other works of art; models or
designs for works of art;
8. original ornamental designs or models for articles or
manufacture, whether or not registrable as an insdustrial
design, and other works of applied art;
 Copyright
9. illustrations, maps, plans, sketches, charts and three dimensional works
relative to geography, topography, architecture or science;
10. drawings or plastic works of a scientific or technical character;
11. photographic works including works produced by a process analogous
to photography; lantern slides;
12. audiovisual works and cinematographic works and works produced by
a process analogous to cinematography or any process for making audio-
visual recordings;
13. pictorial illustrations and advertisements’
14. computer programs, and;
15. other literacy, scholarly, scientific and artistic works.
 Materials 1-15
The internet is a very rich source of mentioned
materials and we should be careful in using them. These
works are protected by the sole fact of their creation,
irrespective of their form or mode of creation as well as of
their content, quality and purpose.
Now that copy and paste are very accessible commands
in our computer toolbars, we should try not to violate the
copyright laws otherwise we could be accused of
copyright infringement.
 Copyright infringement is the use of works without
permission where the copyright holder has the exclusive
right to reproduce, distribute, display or perform the
protected work, or to make derivative works. Proper
citations should be used when including them in our
output.
As a criminal offense, copyright infringement is punishable by
imprisonment ranging from one (1) year to nine (9) years and a
fine ranging from Fifty Thousand Pesos (P50,000.00) to One Million
Five Hundred Thousand Pesos (P1,500,000.00) depending on the
value of the infringing materials, damage to the copyright owner
Guidelines on online use of copyrighted materials by
Smaldino, Lowther and Russel, 2012
1. Contrary to popular opinion, all material on the
internet is copyrighted unless stated otherwise. It is
copyrighted even if it does not display the copyright
symbol.
2. An email is an original work, fixed in a tangible
medium of expression, that is covered by copyright.
Hence it is recommended that you should not forward
any email without permission, in consideration of
both copyright and Privacy Act.
Guidelines on online use of copyrighted materials by
Smaldino, Lowther and Russel, 2012
3. Downloading an article from a newspaper’s website,
making copies, and distributing them to your students
prior to a class discussion on the topic is permissible
following the current photocopying guidelines which
permits making multiple copies for classroom use. The
exception would be individually bylined, copyrighted
articles, or articles from a source specifically designed for
the educational market where such articles cannot be
copied legally for class distribution (adapted from Becker,
2003)
Guidelines on online use of copyrighted materials by
Smaldino, Lowther and Russel, 2012
4. You cannot post students’ essays, poems, or other
works on the school website unless you have permission of
the students and their parents or guardians.
5. Educators should treat copyrighted materials from the
internet the same way they do to print formats. The best
guideline is to always obtain permission. When in doubt,
ask!
 Copyright Infringement vs. Plagiarism
Another violation on intellectual property is
plagiarism. Although plagiarism and copyright
infringement are related ideas, these two are different.
Plagiarism, according to plagiarism.org, is an act of
fraud; it involves both stealing someone else’s work and
lying about it afterward. Plagiarism.org further
elaborates the following as plagiarism:
1. Turning in someone else’s work as your own
2. Copying words or ideas from someone else without
giving credit
 Copyright Infringement vs. Plagiarism
Plagiarism.org further elaborates the following as
plagiarism:
3. Failing to put a quotation in quotation marks
4. Giving incorrect information about the source of a
quotation
5. Changing words but copying the sentence structure of
a source without giving credit
6. Copying so many words or ideas from a source that it
makes up the majority of your work, whether you give
credit or not (see our section on “fair use” rules)
 Copyright Infringement vs. Plagiarism
For images, videos and music, the following are counted as
plagiarism:
1. Copying media (especially images) from other websites to
paste them into your own papers or websites.
2. Making a video using footage from others’ videos or using
copyrighted music as part of the soundtrack.
3. Performing another person’s copyrighted music (i.e.
playing a cover)
4. Composing a piece of music that borrows heavily from
another composition.
 Copyright Infringement vs. Plagiarism
Plagiarism refers to copying the work of another and
claiming it as one’s ideas or without proper attribution while
copyright infringement is copying one’s work without
obtaining permission. In this sense, copyright infringement is a
violation of the right of the copyright holder while plagiarism
is a violation of the right of the author.
We have to note that all authors are copyright holders; there
are cases when the publisher owns the copyright. In addition,
copyright infringement is a legal violation while plagiarism is
an ethical violation.
 Activity 3b. Using Plagiarism Checker App
Log in to a plagiarism checker app such as
https://www.plagiarismsoftware.net/ and check the
message you submitted in Activity 1. Copy the message and
paste it to the plagiarism checker app. Check the result.
Upload the output or the result of checking in the same file
that you used in answering Activities 1, 2, and 3a.
 Filename for Activities 1, 2, and 3
Surname FirstName Middle Initial_Activities 1,2&3

Upload your file to the same link on the GDrive prepared

by your class president for the submitted IMs.

Requesting the class president to share the link to

[email protected]
Thank You Very Much