Digital Tattoo for NITEP students

Highly Visible and Hard to Remove

UBC’s Digital Tattoo Project

What is Your Digital Footprint?

Take a moment to think about where you create, contribute to and/or consume online?

Share with the group

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How digital are you?

Context – Young Adults

55% of 18-34 year olds have a personal profile on at least one online social network. 39% of these have posted something on their social networking pages that they regret. 1/3 of YAs on social networking sites still don’t adjust privacy settings on their profiles. Facebook has >500 million active users (as of August 2010).

If Facebook were a country, it would be the third largest in the world, between the United States (300 million) and India (1.2 billion)!

~ 80% of young adults (YAs) have their own cell phones (CTIA, 2010). 15% of YAs report that they've had private material (IMs, texts, emails) forwarded

without permission. -commonsense.org

Recent studies indicate:”Young adults have an aspiration for increased privacy even while they participate in an online reality that is optimized to increase their revelation of personal data."

(Hoofnagle, King, Li & Turow, 2010, p.20)

It’s not that they don’t care, it’s just that they don’t know!

Context

Our abilities and online skills outstrip the

knowledge and judgment needed for this environment.

Examples: 3 Perspectives

#1. Individual

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#2. Educator

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#1. The Individual: Stacy Snyder

2006: student teacher called into question. She was denied a teaching degree.

2008: judge rejected her claim that this violated her First Amendment right to free speech.

2010: her photo & story lives on in perpetuity.

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Consider your personal view

Discuss: What would you do? How would you defend/discuss/respond to a

public view of you that was taken out of context? How do you reconcile the different facets of your

identity – public/private, professional/personal? Website: http://nyti.ms/dpAcKM

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The Broader Context:The Web Means the End of Forgetting

“Societal forgetting” important.

Technological solutions: expiration dates for data.

Forgiveness: explore new ways of living in digital world.

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New York Times: July 21, 2010

#2. The Educator: Mr. H

Offers a blog as support hub to grade 8 Math students

Uses a variety of freely available online platforms for students to create and publish.

Class accounts are used and student blogs are private.

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Consider your view as an educator

Discuss: If you could talk to Mr. H, what would you

want to ask him? How might this impact the digital identities of

his students ? If you could talk to Mr. H’s students, what

questions would you ask?

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#3. The Professional: Teaching

Toronto District School Board developing social media guidelines

Vancouver Board deems “friending” and personal email “unacceptable”.

Blurred boundaries leave students and teachers vulnerable.

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Consider your view as part of a larger profession

Discuss: Are current standards and ethics enough? Who do you look for in providing guidelines

around issues related to personal/professional boundaries?

Do you feel protected/vulnerable?

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Website: http://bit.ly/bTUAxo

The Broader Context: Policy and Guidelines

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http://socialmediaguidelines.pbworks.com/Faculty-and-Staff-Guidelines

The government approach

The collective approach

the practical approach

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Some things haven’t changed… Youth are still exploring and experimenting with risky

behavior. We still search for social connections and validation. People continue to redefine their personal and

professional identities as organizations and technologies change.

Context

What has changed is the fact that there could very well be a permanent record of all of this, one

with implications that can't be predicted or controlled.

ScaleScale

Online activity takes place before a vast audience

Candy Coloured Tunnel on Flickr - Photo Sharing! (n.d.). . Retrieved May 6, 2010, from http://www.flickr.com/photos/atomicjeep/2327546948/

The audience can be invisibleand anonymous

Liverpool Street station crowd blur on Flickr - Photo Sharing! (n.d.). . Retrieved May 6, 2010, from http://www.flickr.com/photos/victoriapeckham/164175205/

Content is replicable in a world of… copy and paste, @RT, forward, share, <embed>

Repeating Shadows on Flickr - Photo Sharing! (n.d.). . Retrieved May 6, 2010, from http://www.flickr.com/photos/nikonvscanon/1474906347/

Access to a greater depth of information

Teamwork, connect, collaborate and network

Community support, share passions

The art of possibility on Flickr - Photo Sharing! (n.d.). . Retrieved May 6, 2010, from http://www.flickr.com/photos/debaird/178785182/

Digital Tattoo Tutorial

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Resources Digital Tattoo Madden, M., Fox, S., Smith, A., & Vitak, J. (2007).

Digital Footprints: Online Identity Management and Search in the Age of Transparency. Pew/Internet.

McBride, Melanie (2010) http://melaniemcbride.net/2009/08/27/putting-the-social-justice-in-social-media-pedagogy/

Rego, B. (2009). Teachers Guide to Using Facebook. Richardson, W. (2008, January).

Teaching Civics with Social Web Tools. District Administration, 44(1), 56-56.

Rosen, Jeffrey (2010) The Web Means the End of Forgetting, New York Times.

Quan, Douglas (2010) Facebook Blurs Line Between Teacher and Friend, Vancouver Sun.

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ResourcesClass Blogs Welcome to Blogging: class intro for elementary students - Sargeant Park Math Zone:

http://bit.ly/du9X1k Create a Class Blog (2010)-Edublogger: http://bit.ly/7s2CZe Sarah Roy’s Class Blog: http://msroy.wordpress.com/

Images Arm and Ink | Flickr - Photo Sharing! (n.d.). . Retrieved September 24, 2010, from

http://www.flickr.com/photos/question_everything/3710548944/

Candy Coloured Tunnel on Flickr - Photo Sharing! (n.d.). . Retrieved May 6, 2010, from http://www.flickr.com/photos/atomicjeep/2327546948/

Liverpool Street station crowd blur on Flickr - Photo Sharing! (n.d.). . Retrieved May 6, 2010, from http://www.flickr.com/photos/victoriapeckham/164175205/

Repeating Shadows on Flickr - Photo Sharing! (n.d.). . Retrieved May 6, 2010, from http://www.flickr.com/photos/nikonvscanon/1474906347/

The art of possibility on Flickr - Photo Sharing! (n.d.). . Retrieved May 6, 2010, from http://www.flickr.com/photos/debaird/178785182/

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