Citizenship In Action (Technology)
Overview
In 2017 a fourteen-year-old girl in London died, and her family found on her phone a feed that had recommended her thousands of posts about self-harm and suicide. They did not stop at grief. They gave evidence, they built a coalition with other bereaved families and children's charities, they gave interviews for years, and the law of the United Kingdom now places duties on platforms that it did not place before.
That is what citizenship action looks like in the Technology theme: slow, evidence-heavy, and aimed at systems rather than at individuals. This lesson covers how citizens campaign on online safety and censorship, how law-making on broadband, libel and child protection can be influenced, how to teach digital skills to people who lack them, and what schools, charities and international organisations are doing to get technology into classrooms that have none.
Objectives
- Engaging with technological change, including campaigning about safety or censorship issues
- Understanding the role of law-making in support of technology access or protection issues, such as broadband availability, online libel and child protection
- Promoting technological skills and capabilities, and helping other citizens to understand the benefits and risks of social media use
- Understanding the work of schools, charities, NGOs, and international organisations in improving access to technology in the classroom
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- A universal service obligation for broadband is: A) A voluntary promise by internet companies to improve speeds B) A legal duty on a designated provider to supply a defined minimum connection on request C) An international treaty on internet access D) A tax on households that use the internet Answer: B
- Which of the following is the strongest first step for a group campaigning about an online safety issue? A) Posting angrily about the company on social media B) Gathering evidence and identifying the regulator or committee with power to act C) Waiting for the government to notice the problem D) Asking students to delete their accounts Answer: B
- Under the law of England and Wales, a person who shares someone else's defamatory post: A) Has no legal responsibility, because they did not write it B) Can be personally liable, because repeating a defamatory statement is itself publication C) Is protected if they add a comment D) Is only liable if the post is about a public figure Answer: B
- The Giga initiative, run by the International Telecommunication Union and UNICEF, aims to: A) Ban smartphones in schools worldwide B) Connect every school in the world to the internet C) Provide free social media accounts to students D) Regulate online advertising aimed at children Answer: B
- Why is donating computers to schools often insufficient on its own? A) Computers are too expensive to donate B) Schools are not allowed to accept donations C) Without electricity, connectivity, teacher training and repair, the devices are little used D) Students already have better computers at home Answer: C
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