Digital Footprint meets LegoMagda Bober

Information & CommunicationsManchester Metropolitan University

Image: http://dolours.edublogs.org/2014/09/09/digital-footprint

My research• Use of digital media for entertainment and

education, especially by young people• What do we do when we are online?• How do we interact with digital devices?• What are the benefits, what are the risks?• How do we represent ourselves online? What do

we share with others online?• What is our digital footprint?• How to stay safe online?

What is a digital footprint?Simply put, it is everything on the internet about you including:• Social media profiles• Images/photos of you• Any information or content

posted by you online• Your search history• Data on many other

activities that you do online that you leave behind

Hard to deleteSource:

www.slideshare.net/bns_library/keeping-kids-safe-in-the-digital-era

How we will explore this topic: Lego Serious Play (LSP)

Ok to take pictures of you building LEGO models and tweet?

#esrcfestival

Photographs

Build a tower

Warm-up: Task 1 (1 min)

Take your tower apart

Warm-up

Build an animal using up to 8 bricks

Warm-up: Task 2 (3 mins)

Add something to this animal that says something about how you feel about being at MMU today.

Share your model with your group.

Warm-up: Task 3 (2 mins)

Now that you’ve done the warm up, we can move on to the main

building tasks…

Task 4 (5 mins):

Build a model that captures the things you do when you are online (your ‘digital

footprint’).

What are the positives, what are the risks?

Write some brief comments about your model on a post-it note.

Share your models with your group.

Ask questions, comment on each others’ models.

Notes

Task 5 (5 mins):

Now build a model that captures how to get the best out of the internet and stay safe online.

Share your model with your group.

Place your models around the sheet of paper. As a group,

write a list with advice for staying safe online on the sheet, based on

your models.

Online safety advice

Thank you