This is another topic where I feel we are failing our students. I first heard the term Digital Footprint a little over a year ago...from Paige Jaeger and realized what an important lesson my students need to be taught! After speaking informally with my high school students I realized how clueless they are about digital citizenship and how the life they lead online will follow them in the "real world". I love the term Digital Tattoo - it seems a little more permanent and I believe the students can relate to it.
I did start with searching myself on Spokeo and other such sites and was shocked at the detail and how many years back these sites went with my personal information.
There is so much information out there on this topic it is staggering and yet we have students that are living their lives online not realizing the full impact...their online sharing will have on them.
The presentation I created for my upcoming 9th graders included:
A great video on youtube....Youth & Media Digital Dossier....it is a quick 4 minutes video that opens their mind to have is put out there and how it is used.
I also referenced an article in Time Magazine about Data Mining - Your Data for Sale March 2013. Some students were shocked to find out that their information was for sale...and that Facebook made 3.2 billion in advertising revenue.
Two books I found helpful were Digital Citizenship in Schools - Ribble & Bailey and Born Digital - Palfrey & Gasser.
I reviewed with my students some of the fine print details of what they are agreeing to when using things like Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat and other apps.
We also reviewed the Stephentown House Party last August that made the news because of pictures that were posted on social media sites.
Students were shocked to find out that employers and colleges want full access to Facebook! For many students this was the eye opener!! Or the pictures that they send via Snapshat that are supposed to be only viewed for a few seconds are never really "gone".
We touched on cyberbullying and the shocking statistics of students that have taken their lives because of such activity.
There is such a need here that I feel we are missing the boat on. Our students are living their lives out on social media with blinders on. We as educators need to fit this into the curriculum....somewhere between the common core and testing.... Many of the teachers believe someone else will cover it with the students and instead we are doing them a huge disservice.
When I did my lesson with my 9th graders some of the teachers were shocked at some of the information I shared and were unaware as well....so I think my next move is creating some inservice class for my teachers.
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