01_Fundamentals

Lesson Plan 1: Online Ethics
//Source: A learning.com lesson.// In this lesson teachers use the discussion points to help students understand the concepts of online ethics, including acceptable use policies, copyright laws, computer hacking, piracy, intentional virus setting, and invasion of privacy. Primary Objectives:
 * Type:** Discussion
 * Tool:** Computer
 * Objective:**
 * Student understands intellectual property and the copyright laws that protect it.
 * Student learns about ethical violations, such as computer hacking, piracy, intentional virus setting, and invasion of privacy.
 * Student learns the consequences of ethical violations.

Secondary Objectives:
 * Student understands acceptable use policies and how they apply to EasyTech and the school and/or computer lab.

**Warm-Up:** > **Activity:** Discuss online ethics and consequences of unethical behavior: • Discuss acceptable use policies like the school.s policy. • Explain intellectual property and copyright laws. • Talk about ethical violations including computer hacking, piracy, intentional virus setting, and invasion of privacy. • Discuss the consequences for each of these violations.
 * 1) What places are governed by rules? (Sports, Classrooms, Roadways, etc?
 * 2) Discuss how places may differ, but how rules are similar. ([|OnlineEthicsDiscussionPoints.pdf])
 * 3) Why do these rules exist?

**Wrap-Up:** Together read the school's AUP and discuss: [|Emerson - Computer Use Policy.docx] > **Important Additional Resources:** [|cipa.pdf], [|AcceptableUse.pdf] **Extention:** Have students research, more in-depth, the different computer ethical use principles discussed in this lesson. Using their research, have them create a presentation or short report illustrating what they learned. Have them find examples, consequences, and the ways those principles relate to their school and community.
 * 1) What are rules students were not aware of?
 * 2) What rules which should be included or are missing?