The topic of privacy on the internet was introduce in my social media class this week. The class discussion made me reexamine what is the best way to help my students develop the internal systems and filters to protect themselves and their digital privacy. I love that my school uses Edmodo as an internal social media network. Edmodo uses a platform that is similar to Facebook and lets uses in the community - students, teachers, parents - to post and comment on each other's statuses. The system is used for formal and academic communication in the classroom and there are pages and groups dedicated to informal communication between students. |
I know that eventually my students will graduate to different social media platforms and that they will need guidance to develop skills to protect their own privacy. I decided to seek out resources to help with digital citizenship instruction. I came across a digital citizen curriculum from Common Sense Media group with lessons that range from how the individual protects themselves and the digital community to plagiarism to how to tell the difference between private and public information. These seem like quality lessons or at least a good foundation to build a really engaging and meaningful lesson form. The resources are free but you do need to sign up for an account. If you are intested in teaching K12 students about digital citizenship I suggest you visit http://www.commonsensemedia.org.