Week 2, Digital Identities and Digital Securities.
Your digital identity is your online presence it is created by all the information you put out on the Internet, from everything you Google search to every post or photo you put on your social media account. This information is stored in data banks without you even knowing. Data banks sell your digital identity to big companies that use your information to sell you goods and services (Tranberg, 2013).
Students and teachers should be careful about what information they push out on the Internet, as what you do can be seen by everyone even people you don’t know, and it can be copied and passed on and it also can be permanent (Tranberg, 2013).
Cyber bullying is a very serious and important issue unlike school bullying when the children leave the school yard the children don’t get a break, children can be cyber bullied 24/7 (Howell, 2014 February). Other than cyber bully’s teachers need to protect themselves and their students from other criminals such as predators, scammers and identity thieves. To protect our students and ourselves we need to learn control. It is very important to control whom information is being shared with and whom you have befriended on your social media account (Howell, 2014 April). Setting up different identities is good way to control who and when you want people to see certain things (Tranberg, 2013). For example I may not want my students to see photos of me at the beach with my family.
Maintaining and updating your privacy settings is a great way to control who can access your information, control how much you share (http://www.safetynetkids.org.uk). Think carefully before posting a comment or a photo, once a picture is on the Internet you don’t own it anymore (Howell, 2014 April). Don’t share your personal information such as your address and always be respectful of other people’s privacy (http://www.safetynetkids.org.uk).
Reference:
Howell, J. (2014, February 27) Living and learning in the digital world mod01 04 Topic 03 [ilecture]. Retrieved from https://echo.ilecture.curtin.edu.au:8443/ess/echo/presentation/1636447f-aa10-42de-bec3-f6fe6f44932e
Howell, J. (2014, April 14) Living and learning in the digital world mod01 Topic 02 new version. [ilecture]. Retrieved from https://echo.ilecture.curtin.edu.au:8443/ess/echo/presentation/5d30e360-d6ea-473e-b308-5b81b201dd82
Tranberg, P. (2013, October 4) Fake it – to control your digital identity [Video file]. Retrieved from https://lms.curtin.edu.au/webapps/blackboard/content/listContent.jsp?course_id=_76602_1&content_id=_4150640_1&mode=reset
Teaching and Learning in the digital world 