Digital Citizenship & Cyber Safety
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This document provides an overview of topics related to digital citizenship and cyber safety. It discusses digital life and footprint, social networking privacy settings and friend requests, cyberbullying, and using a flipped lesson model. Specific activities are suggested to teach students about their digital footprint, changing privacy settings on social networks, and evaluating friend requests. Resources for further information and lessons include websites like Common Sense Media and NetSmartz.
Digital Citizenship & Cyber Safety
- 1. Digital Citizenship & Cyber Safety Aislynn Denny Media Specialist Guilford Middle School [email protected]
- 2. Topics Digital Life & Digital Footprint Social Networking (Privacy Settings & Friend Requests) Cyberbullying Flipped Lesson Plan Shared Resources
- 3. Digital Life Our Students are digital natives – the internet has always been a part of their lives. On average students spend 4-5 hours online a day, more if they attend a 1-to-1 school. Our curriculum requires more online research & interaction than ever before. Many begin building their digital footprint in elementary school and some even earlier than that.
- 4. Digital Footprint The “trail” we leave online The trail comes from our e-mails, message board/forum posts, videos, tweets, status updates, and pictures The trail can be followed by anyone with a little time and effort including future employers, college admissions officers, and scholarship committees.
- 5. Digital Footprint Activity – All grade levels Part of the Common Sense Media “Trillion Dollar Footprint” lesson for Grades 6-8 After discussing that you can present the best possible version of you to the digital world have students think about what they want their digital footprint to be. Give each student a “My Digital Footprint” handout and let them fill it in. Do one for yourself to show an example. Let them be creative – crayons, colored pencils, etc.
- 6. Digital Footprint - Middle School & High School You are what you post Nothing is truly deleted on the internet – it can always be found Think about who you want to be, what face you want to show the digital world. Video from Netsmartz.org: Two Kinds of Stupid Discuss the video with the students What could Eduardo have done differently?
- 7. Digital Footprint Activity From Educational Technology & Mobile Learning – High School Introduction to Digital Footprint – Show the Intro to Digital Footprint video from Common Sense Media Digital Footprint Discussion Ask the following questions: If we were to look you up online what would we learn about you? What are your digital footprints? Is there anything online that you wouldn’t want your teacher or parent to know about you? Show Digital Footprints TEDx Talk (may work best for high school, but 8th graders may enjoy it as well) Student googles themselves – simply type in their full name Can also use Pipl.com to get a more in-depth path Con: Some industrious student might want to try to follow your path
- 8. Social Networking Privacy Settings & Friend Requests All Social Networks have privacy settings Students need to understand the difference between the types of privacy settings Public – wide open! Friends & Family – only the people you accept can see your updates & pictures Private – only you can see it Not every friend request needs to be accepted Be aware – once the friend request is accepted your information is available for whatever purpose the other person may have.
- 9. Privacy Settings & Friend Requests Activity Go over the different privacy settings that are commonly found online Show a Facebook/Instagram/Twi tter page – use a student’s if you can get his or her permission as well as parental permission Show the students how to change their privacy settings Move on to Friend Requests Rather than putting a student on the spot – use a screen shot of a public Facebook page with the personal information blacked out – except for the number of friends. Choose one with a large number of friends Use this profile to kick start discussion before showing a video about friend requests if you can find a good one
- 10. Cyberbullying Ask the students what they think Cyberbullying is Give them the official definition Provide them with information about the consequences of committing cyberbullying Give them suggestions on what to do if they are victims of cyberbullying Try to reinforce the fact that actions online impact other people.
- 11. Flipped Lesson Flipping the lesson allows you to share the information without standing and lecturing for hours. Let the students view the power point at home – add audio if you want to make additional points Students then participate in group or individual activities in the classroom using the information they’ve learned already. Allows greater engagement & personalized instruction as students move at their own pace.
- 12. Resources Blendspace: https://www.blendspace.com/lessons/ln8 34Sbr12LWHw/digital-citizenship-cyber- safety iSafe: iSafe.org Common Sense Media: www.commonsensemedia.org NetSmartz: www.netsmartz.org
- 13. Thank you! Please feel free to post any questions, comments or suggestions on my Linoit board for this webinar. http://linoit.com/users/dennyb/can vases/Digital%20Citizenship%20Webi nar