Presented by Aislynn Denny, Guilford Middle School, on March 26, 2015

1. Digital
Citizenship &
Cyber Safety
Aislynn Denny
Media Specialist
Guilford Middle School
dennyb@gcsnc.com

2. Topics
 Digital Life & Digital Footprint
 Social Networking (Privacy Settings &
Friend Requests)
 Cyberbullying
 Flipped Lesson Plan
 Shared Resources

3. Digital Life
 Our Students are digital natives – the internet
has always been a part of their lives.
 On average students spend 4-5 hours online a
day, more if they attend a 1-to-1 school.
 Our curriculum requires more online research
& interaction than ever before.
 Many begin building their digital footprint in
elementary school and some even earlier
than that.

4. Digital Footprint
 The “trail” we leave online
 The trail comes from our e-mails, message
board/forum posts, videos, tweets, status
updates, and pictures
 The trail can be followed by anyone with
a little time and effort including future
employers, college admissions officers,
and scholarship committees.

5. Digital Footprint Activity –
All grade levels
 Part of the Common Sense Media “Trillion
Dollar Footprint” lesson for Grades 6-8
 After discussing that you can present the best
possible version of you to the digital world
have students think about what they want
their digital footprint to be.
 Give each student a “My Digital Footprint”
handout and let them fill it in. Do one for
yourself to show an example. Let them be
creative – crayons, colored pencils, etc.

6. Digital Footprint - Middle
School & High School
 You are what you
post
 Nothing is truly
deleted on the
internet – it can
always be found
 Think about who you
want to be, what
face you want to
show the digital
world.
 Video from
Netsmartz.org: Two
Kinds of Stupid
 Discuss the video
with the students
 What could
Eduardo have
done differently?

7. Digital Footprint Activity From Educational
Technology & Mobile Learning
– High School
 Introduction to Digital Footprint – Show the Intro to
Digital Footprint video from Common Sense Media
 Digital Footprint Discussion
 Ask the following questions:
 If we were to look you up online what would we learn
about you?
 What are your digital footprints?
 Is there anything online that you wouldn’t want your
teacher or parent to know about you?
 Show Digital Footprints TEDx Talk (may work best for
high school, but 8th graders may enjoy it as well)
 Student googles themselves – simply type in their full
name
 Can also use Pipl.com to get a more in-depth path
 Con: Some industrious student might want to try to
follow your path

8. Social Networking
Privacy Settings & Friend
Requests
 All Social Networks have privacy settings
 Students need to understand the difference
between the types of privacy settings
 Public – wide open!
 Friends & Family – only the people you accept can
see your updates & pictures
 Private – only you can see it
 Not every friend request needs to be accepted
 Be aware – once the friend request is accepted
your information is available for whatever purpose
the other person may have.

9. Privacy Settings & Friend Requests
Activity
 Go over the different
privacy settings that are
commonly found online
 Show a
Facebook/Instagram/Twi
tter page – use a
student’s if you can get
his or her permission as
well as parental
permission
 Show the students how
to change their privacy
settings
 Move on to Friend
Requests
 Rather than putting a
student on the spot – use
a screen shot of a public
Facebook page with the
personal information
blacked out – except for
the number of friends.
Choose one with a large
number of friends
 Use this profile to kick start
discussion before showing
a video about friend
requests if you can find a
good one

10. Cyberbullying
 Ask the students what they think
Cyberbullying is
 Give them the official definition
 Provide them with information about the
consequences of committing cyberbullying
 Give them suggestions on what to do if they
are victims of cyberbullying
 Try to reinforce the fact that actions online
impact other people.

11. Flipped Lesson
 Flipping the lesson allows you
to share the information
without standing and lecturing
for hours.
 Let the students view the
power point at home – add
audio if you want to make
additional points
 Students then participate in
group or individual activities in
the classroom using the
information they’ve learned
already.
 Allows greater engagement &
personalized instruction as
students move at their own
pace.

12. Resources
 Blendspace:
https://www.blendspace.com/lessons/ln8
34Sbr12LWHw/digital-citizenship-cyber-
safety
 iSafe: iSafe.org
 Common Sense Media:
www.commonsensemedia.org
 NetSmartz: www.netsmartz.org

13. Thank you!
Please feel free to post any
questions, comments or suggestions
on my Linoit board for this webinar.
http://linoit.com/users/dennyb/can
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