Participate 4.1.2 Digital Safety and Security Quest
- What is the most important step we can take in terms of ensuring our digital safety?
- What strategies can we take to help our students consistently keep digital safety in the forefront of their minds?
Interlopers, as described in the quest, do not exist in our DLC. We could however, have students participate inappropriately in discussions or communicate, via email, inappropriately to classmates. Monitoring discussions daily helps to prevent this inappropriate activity within discussions. If we see an inappropriate comment, we as the teacher, have the ability to remove the entire post if necessary. We would then contact the student, and potentially all stakeholders (depending up the severity of the inappropriateness) explaining the problem and encouraging appropriate behavior. If the behavior were to continue, we would contact our DC and ASI for additional assistance.
As our students do research outside of our DLC, there are important steps they can take to ensure their digital safety.
Some strategies we can use to help our students keep digital safety in mind are:
- Give them direct links to site that we know to be sound.
- Remind them within announcements and emails about the importance of digital safety. The video shared in the quest would be an excellent video to share within our announcements, especially at the beginning of the semester to start off on the right foot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4P_gj3oRn8s
- Share sites such as https://www.commonsensemedia.org/privacy-and-internet-safety with parents and students to help them understand the importance of digital safetly.