To all parents and caregivers, Welcome back to the second part of 'Mr Davies CyberSafe Blog'. I hope you have gained some valuable reflection over the past week and was able to engage in those open and honest conversations about appropriate online behaviour with your son or daughter. This week I will begin with discussing intellectual property, in particular plagiarism and Creative Commons. Plagiarism refers to the copying of writing/information without due recognition (Brick, 2011), and Creative Commons is the licence that grants copyright permissions to creative works. Understanding intellectual property is important as it allows us to recognise innovation and hard work generated by others. By year 10, students should be able to: - Apply practices that comply with legal obligations regarding the ownership and use of digital products resources (ACARA, 2016 p.7) and -Identify and describe ethical dilemmas and consciously apply practices that protect intell...
