What is negative, loaded with rules and consequences, stuffy and outdated, and never read but signed by all? Your school Acceptable Use Policy? Our AUP certainly met that description - but not any more. Our IT/Library team was tasked with tweaking our Acceptable Use Policy. We deleted and altered until our AUP was no longer recognizeable. With (lots of) inspiration from Educational Origami, a new Digital Citizenship Agreement (DCA) emerged that is student friendly and focused on positive behaviors. We also think it models our community values and can be used as a teaching tool. Check it out.
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Much of our document was adapted from the work of others at Educational Origami thanks to their generous use of a Creative Commons license. Have a look at their site for inspiration to revamp your school's AUP.
[...] this year working on creating a meaningful Digital Citizenship Agreement (which I blogged about here). In rolling this new agreement out to students we wanted to get them thinking about and talking [...]
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