Digital Footprint
Every time you post, comment, like, or share something online, you may add to this record of your online activity.
What is a digital footprint?
Your birthday, home address, phone number, and other details that can identify you are examples of this type of information.
What is personal information?
Using polite language, respecting other people's opinions, and thinking before posting are examples of this type of online behaviour.
What is respectful online communication?
Before sharing a shocking news story online, you should check this to determine whether the information is trustworthy.
What is the source?
This means finding a healthy relationship between technology use and other parts of your life.
What is media balance?
The way you are represented and perceived by others through your online activity.
What is Digital Identity?
A scramble of letters, numbers, and special symbols that should be generally difficult for people to guess and should not be used across different accounts.
What is a unique password?
You are angry after receiving a message from someone. Waiting before responding can help prevent this kind of message that you may regret later.
What is an angry or impulsive response?
A post has one million views, but that number alone does not prove that the information in the post is this.
True or accurate
Turning off notifications while studying is one simple way to reduce these interruptions caused by your devices.
What are digital distractions?
A student posts an embarrassing video and later deletes it. A friend has already saved a copy. This illustrates the lasting nature of this.
What is Digital Permanence?
An app asks to access your location, microphone, contacts, and photos. Before clicking “Allow,” a responsible digital citizen should consider this.
What are the app's permissions and why it needs your information?
Repeatedly sending hurtful messages, posting embarrassing content about someone, or deliberately humiliating someone online can be an example of this.
When you compare information from several trustworthy sources before deciding whether something is true, you are doing this.
What is fact-checking or verifying information?
You planned to spend 20 minutes on social media, but three hours later you are still scrolling. One useful strategy would be to set this.
What is a time limit?
A student carefully chooses what to post because they know their future school, employer, or other people may see it years later. This behaviour demonstrates this type of thinking.
What is Digital Awareness?
Someone sends you a message saying you have won a prize and asks you to click a link and provide your banking information. This type of online trick is designed to get sensitive information from you.
What is phishing?
Someone creates an account pretending to be another student and uses it to post embarrassing messages. This type of online behaviour involves pretending to be someone else.
What is Impersonation?
A website uses a dramatic headline designed to make you angry or excited so that you will click on it. This type of headline is often called this.
What is clickbait?
A student checks their phone every few minutes while studying, eating, watching television, and talking with friends. They feel uncomfortable when they cannot access it. The larger digital-citizenship issue being demonstrated is this.
What is Digital Dependence?
You have two possible posts:
Post A: A respectful photo from a school activity.
Post B: An angry post insulting another person.
Which one is more likely to create a positive digital footprint, and why?
Post A, because it presents the person in a positive and respectful way.
This process involves receiving a code on your phone that ensures you are the owner of the account you are trying to access.
What is Two-Step Verification/Authentication?
A student makes a sarcastic comment in a group chat. Several people become offended because they cannot hear the student's tone of voice or see their facial expression. This demonstrates one major limitation of this type of communication.
What is texting?
A video claims that a new product “will change your life.” Before believing it, you discover that the person making the video is paid by the company selling the product. This information reveals the creator's possible ______.
Bias
A student keeps checking social media because they are afraid they will miss an important message, event, or update while they are offline. This fear is commonly known by this four letter acronym.
What is FOMO?