The Digital Life

Be mindful of your digital footprint..

Harvard has rescinded acceptance offers to at least 10 incoming freshmen who posted offensive jokes about school shootings, the Holocaust, bestiality and the death of children and minorities — among other obscene topics — to a private Facebook group.

A new virus unlike any other pandemic is quickly spreading around the world. This girl has been infected and risks spreading it. Any school can come down with a pandemic flu of Cyber Bullying. This video depicts how easily people get infected and spread the germs without even knowing it.

Everyone Knows You Online..
A short but powerful video that looks at social media and how anyone can find out about you. This video asks how much should you share, and with whom. Think before you post is the theme of this short video.

The "Good" and the "Bad" to your privacy and digital footprint.. Self-Expression and Identity. Who are you when you're online?

Julie's Journey, a teenage girl talks about her experience and how easy it was for her to be abducted because of her actions online. How running away seemed ok. Julie describes what happened to her, why she came forward and warns others of the dangers.

It's closer than you think...

LANGDON, N.H. --New Hampshire State Police said the 16-year-old girl who left Fall Mountain Regional High School Friday morning in an unknown vehicle. Members of her family said they were concerned she may have met an online predator. The car was a dark-colored older Buick, possibly a Regal or Century, with a silver or gray luggage rack on the trunk. October 19, 2013.
http://www.wmur.com/news/nh-news/16yearold-girl-missing-in-langdon-police-say/22515994

Your Digital Footprint
Follow Molly (a digital native) through her life and see how we all leave a "digital footprint" everywhere we have been.. Tread lightly..

Students: Colleges Are Tracking You Online. It Can Help You Graduate

More Internet Safety Resources - NetSmartz & CEOP

Multitasking
Grassian (2009) states that students think they are “extremely technologically savvy,” but according to brain cognitive data they aren’t as “sophisticated as they would like to believe (p. 275). They may know their way around mobile devices but they often don’t know how to make an informed search, Grassian (2009) “students often feel their ‘Googling’ skills make them experts” at research (p. 281). Despite what they say they aren’t as successful at multi-tasking as they think. As if multitasking is something new in fact MIT data shows Millennials can’t focus or retain information well at all.

References
ABC News. "Instagram Star Essena O'Neill Explains Why She Quit Social Media Video." ABC News. ABC News Internet Ventures, 2015. Web. 5 Nov. 2015.

AZAttorneyGeneral. (2008, May 16). NetSmartz.org on Cyberbulling. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGKmlTtZnSk&spfreload=10
BBC. (2015). Internet Safety quiz - do you know how to stay safe? - CBBC Newsround. Retrieved from http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/14979083
Carrollton Police. (2008, February 11). Internet Danger- Everyone Knows Sarah [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThxmgXMBpoM
CEOP. (2009, November 19). Jigsaw: for 8 -10 year olds [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o8auwnJtqE
Digital Natives, & Berkman Center For Internet & Society - Harvard. (2010, September 29). Youth and Media - Re:Born Digital, in Video: Identities [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvrbgKDEii0
FBI. (2015). FBI - SOS — Main Page. Retrieved from https://sos.fbi.gov

Mastercomtube. (2008, November 26). Child rape danger on internet [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ii_aGX4jUBg&spfreload=10
National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. (2015). Parents & Guardians. Retrieved from http://www.netsmartz.org/Parents
NetSmartz. (2015). K_12 Internet Safety Resources. Retrieved from http://www.kgcs.k12.va.us/kges/isafe_resources_k_12.htm
Newsround Special. (2010, February 9). Internet Safety - Newsround Caught In The Web (9 Feb 2010) [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgCNGvL0g1g
Redd K. (2010, June 3). INTERNET SAFETY -- Julie, 13, Tells Her Story [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO8zCS0OZss&spfreload=10
SafeKids.com. (2015). SafeKids Quiz. Retrieved from http://www.safekids.com/quiz/
Strutt Central. (2012, March 22). THE CYBER BULLYING VIRUS [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5PZ_Bh-M6o&spfreload=10