Responsible Use of IT ©️

Using the internet safely, and understanding what it means to own — and license — something you create online.

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⚠️ Source note — this chapter had the most missing pages in the scan: most of §6.1–6.3 (guidelines for inappropriate content) and all of §6.5 (netiquette) were on pages that weren't captured. What follows covers what was actually in the scan — the pre-reading checklist, the chapter's intro, and all of §6.4 on copyright and ownership — with gaps flagged rather than invented.

🎯 What you'll unlock this lesson

✅ Explain safe IT-use practices and ways to prevent cyber threats
✅ Understand what copyright is and how ownership is shown online
✅ Reflect on responsible social-media use

✅ Before we start — how many do you already do?

Tick off each safe-IT-use habit the pre-reading checklist expects you to already know:

💡 Why it matters — most cyber-safety incidents come down to skipping one of these basics, not some exotic hacking technique.

🃏 Key-term flashcards tap to flip

⚠️ Benefits vs. risks of internet use

Global internet use keeps rising across every age group. That brings real benefits — easy access to information, effortless communication — alongside real risks: to health (screen time, posture), to time management, and to privacy.

✅ Benefits

📚 Fast access to information
💬 Effortless communication across distance

⚠️ Societal harms to watch for

🎣 Scams
😢 Sexual harassment and cyberbullying
🚫 Content violating morality or law
🎰 Online gambling
🗣️ Defamation
🔓 Data theft

🛡️ Prevention

🎓 Education — knowing the risks is most of the defence
📄 Actually reading and following a platform's terms of use
👥 Keeping group chats and shared spaces safe and moderated
🚷 Avoiding meeting online strangers in person

The textbook also notes that responsible platforms should require registration, monitor for abuse, and warn users of risks — safety isn't only the individual user's job.

⚠️ Planned — not in the scanned source

§6.1 (guidelines for what to do when you encounter inappropriate content), §6.2 (impacts of publishing inappropriate information), and most of §6.3 (guidelines for reviewing content before you publish it) were on pages missing from the scan.

©️ Creating and showing ownership 6.4

Whatever you create — a photo, a video, a poem — is your intellectual property, and it's worth treating like an asset. Ownership can be shown two ways:

👁️ Visible methods

🏷️ Name credit next to the work
©️ A copyright symbol
💧 A watermark stamped across the image

📄 Hidden / stated methods

📋 Written license terms attached to the file or page
🔍 Metadata embedded in the file itself

KEY TERM · Watermark — a visible mark (often semi-transparent) repeated across an image specifically so it can't be cleanly reused without credit.

🎮 Interactive: read the license, spot what's allowed

Click a licensed item below to reveal its terms, then decide what you're actually allowed to do with it.

Click an item above to read its license terms.

🎯 Activity 6.1

Part A — comic-strip discussion: a student regularly posts his own nature photos, then keeps reposting the same ones over and over to farm more likes. Discuss: is that appropriate posting behaviour, and why or why not?

Part B — compare two licensed items: a watermarked mountain photograph vs. a CC-BY-licensed Thai poem (published by IPST, about youth internet safety). For each, discuss what the license actually permits, and what crediting the creator would require.

🧠 Mini-quiz — no cap, prove it

⚠️ Planned — not in the scanned source

§6.5 Netiquette, the chapter summary, and the end-of-chapter exercises were entirely absent from the scan — the book's back matter (production credits, colophon, back cover) followed directly after §6.4 in the scanned file.

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