Me and My Digital Citizenship

In class, we took the time to find our self on Google. When I did this, I found the site Spokeo, which that shows all the people with your name. From there you can search by state until you find yourself. Here is a link to what I found on myself. The video we watched explained that a digital footprint is created as soon as you are born. With birth records, birth announcements and sharing of cute pictures the newborn is already creating a footprint without their control. What exactly is digital citizenship? It is a concept which helps teachers, technology leaders and parents to understand what students/children/technology users should know to use technology appropriately. As the years go on, our digital footprints grow and no matter what we do, it will never go away. Digital citizenship is everything that you do on the Internet. 

A digital tattoo is an expression of yourself; it’s highly visible, and hard to remove. There are many different ways you can protect yourself on the Internet, but you will still leave some trace. As you grow-up your tattoo will change and evolve, but someone will still be able to trace what you were doing on the Internet before you had the ability to even use the computer.

Over the years I have joined many different social media sties and have not really thought about what I was putting up. Of course as family joined I began taking things down and watching what I say and put on the websites. Growing up we were never taught that what goes up on the Internet will never be taken off, but only to not talk to strangers (which was the biggest concerns then). As I got older I began to hear stories of students not being accepted to their dream schools do to what they had on the Internet, so I became to be cautious about what I was posting. As i have gotten older I have began to regret what I have posted in the Internet. Unfortunately, with the openness of the Internet, I do still tend to run my mouth and say things I should not on the Internet; however, I have learned what is appropriate when it comes to pictures.



Here is a Prezi to help teach students about Digital Citizenship.