Think Before You Ink

EDUC 316Anne Scholefield

Julie MitchellCindy Underhill

Pre – Workshop Survey …

Please take 5 minutes to complete our survey:http://tinyurl.com/9boy327

Questions for reflection…

What’s MY digital tattoo and why should I care?

What perspectives inform my digital identity? What 3 basic principles might help me make

and defend my decisions as I create, manage and own my digital identity?

meaning in context

highly visible

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...and hard to remove

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Principle 1…consider…

Online identity is owned, it’s personal and it evolves over time – just like we do.

Dynamics that Change Interaction

5 dynamics that influence what we do online

 boyd, danah. 2009. "Social Media is Here to Stay... Now What?"

Persistence…

what you (or others) put on the internet stays there

The good

The ugly

The bad

McKayla Maroney Twitter profile

http://thecreativecareer.com/

The Province September 27th, 2011 Orland Kurtenblog

Replicability

content can be taken out of context

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Scalability

Scalability: your networks, your networks’ networks and so on…

Searchability

you can be found

[De]locatability…

when you are everywhere, you are nowhere.

Photo from Inkyhack on Flickr:http://www.flickr.com/photos/inkyhack/4623622328/sizes/m/in/photostream/

The audience can be invisibleand anonymous

What does this mean?

As Danah Boyd states: 

“One of the key challenges is learning how to adapt to an environment in which these properties and dynamics play a key role.”

Principle 2…consider…

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Digital tools have biases. One is towards reducing complexity.

What’s YOUR digital tattoo?

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In 2 minutes, generate a list of all of the ways you have shared/published something digitally in the last 24 hours and share with a partner.What tools did you use?How fast/easy was it to share?Why did you share it?How did you decide who to share it with?

Where are YOU on the line…?

TextingFacebook

TwitterGoogle

Commentingminimal investment

TextingFacebook

TwitterGoogle

Commentingminimal investment

BloggingCreating/sharing digital

photosCreating/sharing video

Creating/sharing music/artheavy investment

BloggingCreating/sharing digital

photosCreating/sharing video

Creating/sharing music/artheavy investment

Documenting/collectinginvestment varies

Documenting/collectinginvestment varies

Principle 3…consider…

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Thoughtful, informed decisions require time and sufficient knowledge.

Digital Ink: 3 Perspectives

#1: Individual

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#2: Educator

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The Individual: Stacy Snyder

2006: student teacher “drinking” 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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“Drunken Pirate”

Consider: your personal view

In groups of 3, for 2 minutes, discuss:

What are the issues that this case brings up for you?

Website: http://nyti.ms/dpAcKM

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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.

cuMr. H’s support hub: http://sargentparkmathzone.blogspot.ca/

Consider: your view as an educator

In groups of 3, for 2 minutes, discuss:

What responsibility does a teacher have to teach students about being a responsible digital citizen?

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Website: http://bit.ly/acjJi

The Profession: Teaching

Ontario College of teachers social media guidelines.

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

Blurred boundaries leave students and teachers vulnerable.

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Broader Context:Teacher Regulation Branch

Standard 2: Educators are role models who act ethically and honestly.

“The Supreme Court of Canada has determined that educators are held to a higher standard than other citizens due to their unique role in society.”

From: Teacher Regulation Branch (former College of Teachers): http://www.bcteacherregulation.ca/Standards

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Consider: your view as part of a larger profession

In groups of 3, for 3 minutes, discuss: How do you balance your professional

obligation to serve as a role model (standard#2) with your personal life online?

What role (if any) do you want your professional association to play in helping you with this?

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Website: http://bit.ly/bTUAxo

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Design your digital tattoo...

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Digital Tattoo Tutorial

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Post – Workshop Survey …

Please take 5 minutes to complete the survey-Part 3:

http://tinyurl.com/9n5j5n5

You will likely be contacted in 6 months to complete Part 3 of the survey.

Resources BC Teacher Regulation Branch: Standards, Questions and Case Studies

http://www.bcteacherregulation.ca/Standards/QuestionsCaseStudies.aspx boyd, danah. 2009. "Social Media is Here to Stay... Now What?" Microsoft Research Tech

Fest, Redmond, Washington, February 26. Retrieved March 10, 2009: http://www.danah.org/papers/talks/MSRTechFest2009.html

Digital Tattoo: digitaltattoo.ubc.ca 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/

Ontario College’s “Use of Electronic Communication and Social Media” http://www.oct.ca/publications/PDF/Prof_Adv_Soc_Media_EN.pdf

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

Review/re-use this presentation:

Slideshare: Digital Tattoo

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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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The Broader Context:The Web Means the End of Forgetting

A humane society values privacy – allows us to cultivate different aspects of personality in different contexts

“Societal forgetting” important – we learn and adjust our behavior based on our mistakes. If we live in fear of making mistakes, we don’t learn/ grow as human beings.

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New York Times: July 21, 2010

The Broader Context: Teaching Digital Citizenship

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