Digital Footprint
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A digital footprint is the trail of data left behind by a person's online activities. It includes information generated from interactions with technology like social media posts, photos, web searches, purchases, and location data. Managing one's digital footprint is important because information online can affect relationships and opportunities. Teachers should educate students about digital footprints and citizenship to help them understand how to positively use technology and avoid oversharing private details that could pose risks.
Digital Footprint
- 1. Dr. Michael England Southwestern Adventist University
- 2. A digital footprint is the data trace or trail left by someone's activity in a digital environment. Digital footprints are the capture in an electronic fashion of memories and moments and are built from the interaction with TV, mobile phone, world wide web, internet, mobile web and other digital equipment. What does digital footprint - mean?
- 3. Unlike footprints are left in the sand at the beach. And as more internet users have become comfortable with the idea of authoring and posting content online, they have also become more aware of the information that remains connected to their name online.
- 4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9udrvJNTEww Common Sense Media- Digital Footprint
- 5. Your Digital Footprint includes things like: Images of you on a surveillance camera Your bank records Your retail and airline purchase records Your telephone records Your medical database entries Copies of hospital scans Information about your web searches General backup data Information about credit Card purchases, etc.
- 6. Example: When you make visible your location settings in Google and start texting or tweeting to Twitter or Facebook, many people would have access to where you are through google maps, where you are walking as they know your address and write you a text on behalf of your brother as they know your family members. A lone girl walking home from shopping might not even know that while she thinks she's simply recapping what she bought, she might be inviting potential rapists with her information which gives them her complete profile and agenda.
- 7. Your Digital Footprint May Be Unflattering https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8C1a2z_cuQ
- 8. Whether or not we do anything about it, the webbed world is full of information about us that is provided by other people, including their opinions about us—the fact of life we know as . . . Reputation
- 9. While reputation management remains challenging for adults, imagine how difficult it is for a child to understand how the digital decisions they make today will stay with them, and the rest of cyberspace, forever.
- 10. Share with your students these tips on how to protect their online identities and build a positive digital footprint. Do not post anything you would not be able to say in front of your parents, teachers, or friends. 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
- 11. Always pause before posting online and read it back to yourself. Edit, revise, and change until it’s really good, original, with no errors. Be clever with your words. This is how you build credibility. 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.
- 12. On the other hand, do use your real name when joining or participating in social media. Your name will help build your profile online. 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.
- 13. Online adults can be divided into four categories based on their level of concern about their online information and whether or not they take steps to limit their online footprint: Confident Creatives are the smallest of the four groups, comprising 17% of online adults. They say they do not worry about the availability of their online data, and actively upload content, but still take steps to limit their personal information. The Concerned and Careful fret about the personal information available about them online and take steps to proactively limit their own online data. One in five online adults (21%) fall into this category. Despite being anxious about how much information is available about them, members of the Worried by the Wayside group do not actively limit their online information. This group contains 18% of online adults. The Unfazed and Inactive group is the largest of the four groups—43% of online adults fall into this category. They neither worry about their personal information nor take steps to limit the amount of information that can be found out about them online.
- 14. What Are You Leaving Behind In Your Digital Footprint https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYzVaX2NoN0
- 15. What is an active footprint? An active digital footprint is deliberately created to share information about yourself. It can create an image or “brand” of what you have to contribute to a prospective college or employer. It is intentional – you are controlling the content – and it should be positive by showing-off your accomplishments and contributions to an area, subject, or cause.
- 16. Build a Positive Online Presence • Produce positive content: – Wikis – Online Portfolios – Twitter – FaceBook – Google+ – Blogs – LinkedIn Create a good digital branding- personally and professionally
- 19. Sites for Searchingfor Yourself: Klout: http://klout.com/ Pipl: https://pipl.com/ Personas: http://personas.media.mit.edu/ Google – MeOnTheWeb: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/1181793?hl=en InPrivate: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/inprivate-faq#1TC=windows-7 WayBackMachine: https://archive.org/web/ Instant Checkmate: http://www.instantcheckmate.com
- 20. Anyone who is in front of or educating children today should know what a digital footprint is, should be able to teach students about their own actions and how they impact that student’s digital footprint, and should point students to resources about digital citizenship.
- 21. As teachers and educators, we need to be a role model for our students and show them how they can interact with the virtual world and what they should do to keep themselves safe.
- 22. We cannot take this for granted – it is not a passing fad – it is here to stay – FOREVER!