Digital Citizenship Activity
Search the internet, discuss with your PLN (Personal Learning Network), reach out to your global community in search of noteworthy and informative resources that focus on digital citizenship.
When you find a digital citizenship resource you like, post via the "Comment" option to the Digital Citizenship Resources post via our Blog and provide a hyperlink to the resource. Then take the time to briefly answer the following questionsL
Why did you choose this resource?
Does the resource align with educational learning outcomes?
Does the resource align with mobile environments?
Have you used the resource as a part of your teaching practice? If so, what was your experience?
When you find a digital citizenship resource you like, post via the "Comment" option to the Digital Citizenship Resources post via our Blog and provide a hyperlink to the resource. Then take the time to briefly answer the following questionsL
Why did you choose this resource?
Does the resource align with educational learning outcomes?
Does the resource align with mobile environments?
Have you used the resource as a part of your teaching practice? If so, what was your experience?
Digital Footprint Activity
The goal of this activity it to have you complete an activity to help you recognize the digital footprint you are creating. Furthermore, we hope that you are able to take this activity as a starting point to discuss digital citizenship and digital footprints with your students.
Whether we are online to research a topic for school, to find resources to use in our teaching, to shop online, to use social media sites to check in with our friends and family, we leave traces of ourselves on the Internet.
Even when we are in the comfort of our home, using our own personal devices, we are communicating with the world on the Internet. We are creating a public identity that everyone can see and that we cannot delete.
While this is not an exhaustive list, digital footprints are created in through:
Your tasks:
Things to consider:
For a closer look at yourself you may wish to use site specific commands; example .facebook.com “ first and last name”
Whether we are online to research a topic for school, to find resources to use in our teaching, to shop online, to use social media sites to check in with our friends and family, we leave traces of ourselves on the Internet.
Even when we are in the comfort of our home, using our own personal devices, we are communicating with the world on the Internet. We are creating a public identity that everyone can see and that we cannot delete.
While this is not an exhaustive list, digital footprints are created in through:
- Google searches: Google will read your searches and your GMail to customize the advertisements for products and services you may be interested in
- Online purchases: When you purchase an item online you are required to give them your personal information for payment and shipping. This information can be circulated through third-party sites, which may sell your information.
- Social media sites, such as Facebook and Twitter: We frequently have conversations with what seems to be only your friends; however, you are not able to control what your friends allow access to. While you may have a friends only setting, your friends may not. Then there is the tagging of photographs and videos that occurs.
Your tasks:
- Brainstorm: Do you know other ways in which digital footprints are created?
- Search Yourself: Using multiple online search engines, search yourself! Take note of the information that appears when you search your full name (first and last). Search using “quotations.”
Search engines you may wish to use:
Things to consider:
- Google; note the different results when using Google.ncr (No Country Reserved)
- pipl
- All The People
- Do all of the results relate to you specifically? Or is there another person that appears with your name as well?
- Does someone else own domains that use your name?
- Is there information you would prefer not appear in the search results?
For a closer look at yourself you may wish to use site specific commands; example .facebook.com “ first and last name”