Legal and ethical contexts in my digital practice
After watching the video Commitment to Parents/Guardians and Family/Whānau I found that this could be a ethical dilemma for myself. At my school all parents and students sign a form to say that photos and videos can be used based on the understanding it will be used within the school and for learning in some way. Based on the Code of Ethics created by the Education council I can see how I could come into some trouble with this. We have so many families at my school who don't speak or understand english very well, so when they are signing up their child into the school they find it difficult to understand what they are doing or agreeing to. Yes, we have asked for permission, but do the parents understand what this permission means? Most of the photos I take and upload are on our school website and in our class blog, both of these are freely available to anyone to access and use how they want. I send home at the beginning of the year access to our school website and blog to the parents so they can share this with other family members as well. I guess, with sending the access home and making it so open to anyone and everyone, so every child in my class is exposed to a lot more people then the families are aware of. The other side is that parents are giving permission for the students, I have year 5 & 6 students and they can understand what it means when their photos are displayed everywhere for everyone can see, and some of them have asked not to have their photos or their face shown when things are being displayed. So do we need to consider the opinion of our students and not their parents?
My school has guidelines around E-Learning and that as teachers we make sure that this aligns with good practice. As I stated before we make sure that each student has a signed form for consent of use of their images. We also Code of Conduct that we as teachers need to follow (based on the same ones as the Education Council), the main idea that comes through in both of them is that we always have the students wellbeing in mind when posting anything. I guess this comes down to common sense? And the the thinking of "If this was me, would I want this posted online for the world to see?" and understanding that these students we have are not our own - they belong to someone else and their family so how would they think and feel about these photos being posted?
My school has guidelines around E-Learning and that as teachers we make sure that this aligns with good practice. As I stated before we make sure that each student has a signed form for consent of use of their images. We also Code of Conduct that we as teachers need to follow (based on the same ones as the Education Council), the main idea that comes through in both of them is that we always have the students wellbeing in mind when posting anything. I guess this comes down to common sense? And the the thinking of "If this was me, would I want this posted online for the world to see?" and understanding that these students we have are not our own - they belong to someone else and their family so how would they think and feel about these photos being posted?
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