Digital Citizenship
LEISD Digital LEarning
Do Your Students Understand?
2. Safety - Do they understand that identifying information can be obtained from pictures (school name on uniforms, license plate numbers, decals with student names/school, etc.)? Do they realize that their friends on social media could be predators?
3. Digital Footprints - Do they realize that everything they post online becomes part of their digital footprint? Do they know that deleted files can usually be recovered? Have they thought about the fact that anyone can take a screenshot of their posts?
4. Authenticity - Do they understand that information on the Internet is not always true?
STUDENTS AND SOCIAL MEDIA
Child Predators
https://www.ipredator.co/online-child-predation
Cyber Safety - Internet Chase
CyberBullying
The statistics are staggering! The percentage of students who have been victims of cyberbullying increases each year. The following links demonstrate the need for parents and educators to be aware of what is happening in cyber space.
- Ryan Halligan Website
- Ryan Halligan Video from The Oprah Show
Think Before You Post!
Twitter Costs Athletic Scholarships - Can social media costs athletic scholarship money?
- One Bad Click Can Be Costly to a Student Athlete - "Never let a 140 character tweet cost you a $140,000 scholarship." (Brandon Chambers, an assistant men's basketball coach at Marymount (Virginia) University)
- LOOK: SMU 'team of people' keeps close eye on recruit's Twitter account - Coach Chad Morris and his staff monitor the social media of recruits
Online With a Sexual Predator - Profile of a sexual predator
Bad behavior on social media can cost student athletes - College coaches share their social media policies and concerns
- Fort Worth teen accused of threatening police in tweet. The high school senior is now facing serious charges after posting a picture on Twitter. Update (start at 1:20)
- Are You Letting the Bad Guys Know Where You Are? Should you be concerned about the Location Services on your child's phone?
- Oregon Teen Arrested After Posting ‘Drivin Drunk’ Facebook Status He thought it would be funny to create a fake post.
- Student Arrested After Making Social Media Threats - High School students makes threats against his school on Twitter
Apps Every Teacher (and Parent) Should Know
- Vine - Users can watch, create and post six second videos.
- Periscope - This is a live-streaming video app that streams straight to Twitter.
- Snapchat - Send images or videos that can be viewed for a designated amount of time. When the time limit expires, the image/video disappears. What prevents the recipient(s) from creating a screenshot or saving the video?
- Whisper - Anonymously post secrets and chat with other users in your geographic area.
- YikYak - Users of YikYak can post comments that are accessible to the nearest 500 people within a 1-5 mile radius.
- Kik - This instant messaging app allows texts/pictures/videos/sketches to be sent without being logged in to the user's phone. (Similar apps: Viber, WhatsApp, TextNow)
- ooVoo - ooVoo lets you video chat with up to 12 people at one time. You can send texts, pictures and video messages through the app.
- Meetme -This app uses GPS coordinates to allow users to meet people who are nearby.
- Skout - This is considered a "flirting" app that is used to meet new people.
- ask.fm - Users anonymously ask others questions
- Line - Allows chatting, photo and video sharing, texting and video calls
- Burn Note - Similar to SnapChat but is only for text messages
- Tinder - Users post pictures and see images others who are nearby have posted. Flag images you are interested in and if they flag you in return, the app will allow you to contact each other. Tinder is primarily used for dating and "hooking up", similar apps such as Down, Skout, Pure, and Blendr, are primarily used for hooking up.
- Blendr - This app is used to meet using GPS location services. You can send messages, photos, videos and rate the hotness of other users.
- Down - This app is connected to Facebook. Users can categorize their Facebook friends as someone they would like to "hang with" or "hook-up with".
- Omegle - This video chatting app allows you to anonymously talk to strangers.
- HiCalculator - Want to hide photos and videos from your parents? HiCalculator looks like a normal calculator , but when you type in the passcode, you unlock pictures and videos that you do not want to appear in your photos app. (IOS only)
- Calculator% - Same as HiCalculator
- Smart Hide Calculator - Google Play Store
- Hide It Pro - Allows the user to hide pictures, videos, applications, messages and calls in your phone.
- Vaulty - Google Play Store
- Audio Manager (Hide It Pro) - Another app that hides photos.
Parents, Beware of Bullying on Sites You've Never Seen
8 Scary Social Networking Sites Every Parent Should Know
Teens and social media – 10 scary apps parents need to know about
A Teenagers View on Social Networking
Here’s how a real teenager uses, and doesn’t use, social media
Top 9 dangerous apps predators use to target children
SPECIAL REPORT: Dangerous Apps
Digital Citizenship Thoughts
We know students are online, we want them to know:
- Being online can make a positive difference in their life. Students throughout the world are doing great things online
- Act on and off line as if the world is watching because they are
- Learn all you can about being a good digital citizen. Google digital citizenship
- Act with integrity on and off line
- Be aware of your digital identity google yourself
- Research creative commons and be able to explain it to a younger student
- You can build a positive reputation on line
- You can be a positive creator
- Your reputation is created by YOU
Digital Citizenship has a place in every school and we need to focus on the positive aspects of the internet as well as the things that concern us. We want students to ask themselves:
- What are the creative opportunities on the web?
- What are the ethical dilemmas?
- What are the rewards and the risks of being on line?
Digital Citizenship Month
Digital LEarning Team
Email: dlf@littleelmisd.net
Website: https://sites.google.com/a/leisd.ws/resources/
Location: 300 Lobo Lane, Little Elm, TX, United States
Phone: (972)947-9340