- When I went to get my first credit card, I was denied. Not because of lack of income but because of too much debt. Upon investigation, I discovered that I had credit cards from when I was 2.
- I don't go to doctors often but about 10 years ago I went to an urgent care office. Then I needed to go to a different doctor, maybe 2 years ago. When I was giving the receptionist my information, she pulled up my records from my visit some 8 years prior. These doctor's offices were unrelated but share a medical database.
- I purchased a copier from Best Buy in SC and had owned it for approximately 3 years. I went to a scrapbook conference in NC and left my plug at home. I went to Best Buy to buy a plug. The associate told me they didn't sell just the cord, to buy another printer, use the cord, then when I was done return the new printer when I got home to SC. OK. I did that. When the associate in SC pulled up my history, she told me I couldn't return it because the only printer they had on record was the one purchased 3 years ago - they still had record of this purchase! After a few minutes, she found the purchase made in NC and returned the printer, no problem.
- Now with Facebook, I get friended by people I haven't spoken with in many, many years.
I know my digital dossier started long before the craze of our current technology and I know the implications it can have, even more so with social media sites now. I homeschool my 5 children. All except my youngest has a Facebook account. They use if for game play mostly, except for my 2nd daughter who posts and reads other's posts. The games are the original reason my children got accounts. My children play many online games, chat with their friends over Steam and Skype. We got "ddosed" the other day. I had never heard of this. According to Webopedia , "A DoS attack (Denial of Service) typically uses one computer and one internet connection to flood a targeted resource or system" (Beal, n.d.). In other words, someone sends tons of data through to your IP address and it blocks you from the internet. My 2nd son was trading items with this person on a video game and they were Skyping. This person threatened my son, if my son didn't give him all his items he would ddos him. My son didn't give the items. This person sent a warning shot of 5 minutes and we were without internet. He came back on and again demanded all his items, my son refused. He ddosed us again, saying it would be 3 months before we would be able to get our internet. I didn't know anything about ddosing and questioned the ability of a person to do this but he did. I contacted ATT and they sent us a new router with a new IP address to get around this ddosing. We have reported this player to the video game and Skype. This incident led to yet another conversation about digital citizenship.
Our family is online often. My kids have played several online games including Webkinz, Magic 101, Team Fortress, Lord of the Rings, Poptropica, Club Penguin and others. We've talked about the importance of not sharing private information and what is considered private information. If your family is online, it's important for families - parents and children alike - to know about digital citizenship, what information is okay to share, what pictures are okay, etc. A friend of mine shared a picture of her toddler's passport the other day, she had blocked most of his information but I still advised her to remove the post, which she did. As teachers we need to reinforce the concept of digital citizenship. The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) teacher standard states:
- Advocate, model and teach safe legal and ethical use of digital information and technology, including respect for copyright, intellectual property and the appropriate documentation of sources
- Address the diverse needs of all students by using learner-centered strategies providing equitable access to appropriate digital tools and resources
- Promote and model digital etiquette and responsible social interactions related to the use of technology and information
- Develop and model cultural understanding and global awareness by engaging with colleagues and students of other cultures using digital age communication and collaboration tools (ISTE, 2008).
The question is when? Is your child on the internet? If yes, then it's time to discuss digital citizenship. Are they about to be introduced to the internet, then it's time. "Digital citizenship covers nine themes and is broken down into three main areas called REPs: Respect, Educate and Protect
- Respect yourself/respect others consists of etiquette, access and law
- Educate yourself/connect with others consists of communication, literacy, and commerce.
- Protect yourself/protect others consists of rights and responsibilities, safety (security), and health and welfare (SNHU, 2016).
Essentially it's taking good citizenship guidelines and applying them to online and technology use. If you wouldn't tell someone at the park or the mall information about yourself or your family, then don't tell someone online. If you wouldn't do or say something to someone in person, don't do it online. RESPECT others. Digital citizenship is about being respectful and should be discussed whenever a person is online. There are many adults who need lessons in digital citizenship and I'd like to think it's because they haven't grown up understanding their digital dossier. Hopefully, we can educate our students on digital citizenship and the impact of their digital dossier.
Beal, V. (n.d.). DDos attack - distributed denial of service. Retrieved from http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/D/DDoS_attack.html
International Society of Technology in Education. (2008). Standards for teachers. Retrieved from http://www.iste.org/standards/iste-standards/standards-for-teachers
Southern New Hampshire University. (2016). Module two: Digital citizenship. Retrieved from https://bb.snhu.edu/bbcswebdav/pid-10652031-dt-content-rid-28211351_1/courses/EDU-642NC-16TW3-MASTER/EDU-642-14TW2-MASTER_ImportedContent_20131105031557/edu_642nc_m2_overview.pdf
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