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Participate 4 - Digital Rights and Responsibilities

Answer: 1. How can a DLC ensure that citizens within the community have access to an environment where an AUP protects members as well as the community itself, where individuals uphold laws, and a cooperative/collective venture provides robust, safe, and ethical resources and opportunities for learning? As members of a DLC, students and teachers have the world at their fingertips. This comes with both immense potential as well as the threat of danger. These potential rewards and risks are not inherent to the internet and technology themselves; the internet and technology are neither "good" nor "evil." Instead, the good and the bad, the risks and the rewards depend on the behaviors of the users, their decision of how to interact with others and what sort of content to share. While DLC leaders cannot necessarily control the content that is already present, we should focus on what we can control (or at least influence ): learner behaviors. Enter the AUP. Accept...