Hi Everyone,
While researching how I can help my students keep their digital foot prints clean, I came across two websites and a poster that I think you will all appreciate. Enjoy! -Jessica
The website below has great information on how teachers can educate students about their digital footprint.
The poster below was found on an elementary school's website for their computer lab. I love it because the web page is written in kid-friendly terms. The poster below really sets the stage and ask students pro-active questions, allowing them to reflect before they post.
I LOVE THIS POSTER!!! :) I cannot wait to print it out and use in my class. It will be taped up right above our computer. I plan to tell the students that this poster represents my expectations for them inside and outside of the classroom, as well as they should hold this expectations for themselves. I want them to know how much their reputation matters, and it needs to start at a young age. Starting the students off with trying to keep their digital footprint clean at a young age will hopefully begin to become a habitat and not an afterthought. I believe that there is no way to eliminate your digital footprint and therefore, students need to be pro-active and not retro active in keeping their footprint clean.
5 comments:
Thanks Jessica!!! I love the poster too and want a big one for my computer area in my classroom. It also makes me feel pretty confident that the discussion we had in my classroom this week was right on target. We are learning (and I say we meaning me too) to blog in class and before we started we talked about what our blogs should and should not look like and discussed what happens to things we post online. I'm now on a mission to get a bigger version of this poster!!
LOVE the poster!!! Thank you so much for sharing! Ann, I'm also proud of you for embracing the technology world. I know you were struggling with it and it seems like you have a pretty good handle on things now. Talking about blogging in your class! Way to go!!!
This post reminds me of an incident that happened recently for me. I've googled myself on and off throughout the years and found very little information on me. I was fairly confident that I've been a smart digital citizen throughout the years - I think about what I say before I post, especially if my name is attached to it, I rarely post pictures of myself, etc. But when I signed up for blogger, I uploaded a picture of myself to accompany my gmail account. A student googled me the other day, and up popped my picture! Luckily it was just after a fresh haircut, but it reminded me that I might not be as careful as I think. It reinforced for me the need to teach how to be a careful digital citizen to our students, and keep teaching that lesson over and over.
Jessica, I have seen similar posters! I like the speech bubbles this one has. What's nice about posters like these is that they can be used to help kiddos be kind face-to-face and online.
http://pinterest.com/pin/170644273350757040/
Recently, in a post I had stated that I wasn't sure how or if teaching social interactions through technology would be as effective as face-to-face interactions. However, looking at the poster and website I realize that this is very possible. I really like the poster and will use it in the classroom. My students have been responding to one another's blogs and it is important that I teach them the impact their digital response can have on their peers, especially because other students can see it too.
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