Digital Footprint Essential Questions- The questions you should be able to answer after we learn this information Who controls the digital you? What daily activities that y ou engage in create your digital footprint? Why is it important to understand your footprint? (think about the future)
Content Standards: ISTE 2. Digital Citizen - Students recognize the rights, responsibilities and opportunities of living, learning and working in an interconnected digital world, and they act and model in ways that are safe, legal and ethical.
2a. Students cultivate and manage their digital identity and reputation and are aware of the permanence of their actions in the digital world. 2d. Students manage their personal data to maintain digital privacy and security and are aware of data-collection technology used to track their navigation online.
CCSS CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RST.6.4 Determine the meaning of symbols, key terms, and other domain-specific words and phrases as they are used in a specific scientific or technical context relevant to grades 6-8 texts and topics.
Competency Questions:
What is a digital footprint? Who leaves a digital footprint? How can others affect your digital footprint? Who wants to capture, view, and analyze your digital footprint? How can your digital footprint affect your future?
Share with your students these tips on how to protect their online identities and build a positive digital footprint .
Never post anything that you might find embarrassing later.
Be careful with the pictures you post on your public profiles. Remember others will see them and judge you based on their content.
Change the privacy settings on your social networking sites so that only your Friends can see your information
Do not disclose your personal address, phone number, passwords. Bank card numbers...etc even in private messages. There is always the possibility of somebody hacking into your account and finding them.
Do not post things to bully, hurt, blackmail, insult, or afflict any kind of harm on others
Always keep in mind that once information has been posted online, it can be almost impossible to remove because of archiving and file sharing. Even though you deactivate your accounts, the information may still be retrieved by others.
Exercises: Please use Digital Footprint as the heading
As a class, we will brainstorm a list of online accounts that you log into. Use the foot graphic above as a guide. Ex. iTunes, email, XBox Live (approx. 2 minutes)