digital tattoo: for vsb educators
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This was a presentation on issues related to digital identity for educators from the Vancouver School Board.TRANSCRIPT
Meaning in context
Highly visible…
…and hard to remove!
What’s Your Attitude? Given the experiences and preferences you
brought to this session, how would you describe your attitude about the school’s role related to digital identity among students? skeptic advocate convert naysayer
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What’s your digital tattoo?
If Facebook were a country, it would be the third largest in the world,
between the United States (~300 million) and India (~1.2 billion)!
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What’s Your Digital Tattoo?
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What’s your digital tattoo?
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Activity 1:Your Digital Tattoo?
1. Search your name/partner’s name using: Google (select for images, movies, etc. too) www.pipl.com www.spezify.com MIT’s Personas at http://personas.media.mit.edu/
2. Consider your impressions of this person based on what you found online.
What did you find? Was this an accurate representation? What concerns were raised?
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Jen’s Perspective
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Some things haven’t changed… People continue to redefine their personal and
professional identities as organizations and technologies change.
We still search for social connections and validation. Youth are still exploring and experimenting with risky
behavior.
Broad Context
What has changed is the fact that there could very well be a permanent record of all of this, one with implications that
can't be predicted or controlled. Common Sense Media TR
ScaleOnline activity takes place
before a vast audience
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Consider this...
How many of your students have mobile devices with photo/video options?
Search for “Vancouver riot” on Flickr reveals more than 10,000 entries.
What are the implications for this young person?
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The audience can be invisibleand anonymous
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Content is replicable in a world of… copy and paste, @RT, forward, share, <embed>
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Examples: Posting, Cutting, Pasting, Tagging is Easy-Peasy!
Good judgment develops over time. The internet on its own doesn’t reflect process – just product.
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Access a wide range of people/resources
Connect, collaborate and network
Build community/learn together
As Educators...
communicate
Personal networks
Learning
network!CU
Case Study: Wendy Drexler’s Class
Theme 1: Networks Are there benefits to expanding learning networks beyond the class? Are there risks/challenges?
Theme 2: Collaboration Have we moved beyond competition to collaboration?
Theme 3: Openness What does openness mean to traditional roles of teacher/student?Does open mean more diverse and if so, how? If not why?
What questions does the video raise for you?
Digital Tattoo: Networks For
Learning
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As Professionals...
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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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Consider: your view as part of a larger profession
In groups of 3, discuss: Are current standards and ethics enough? Who do you look for in providing guidelines
around issues related to personal/professional boundaries?
Do you feel protected/vulnerable?
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Attitude Shift? Have any of your initial attitudes about the
school’s role in digital identity issues changed? How would you describe your attitude now?
skeptic advocate convert naysayer
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Resources
Rego, B. (2009). Teachers Guide to Using Facebook. Social Media Guideleines: a Collective Approach
http://socialmediaguidelines.pbworks.com/Faculty-and-Staff-Guidelines
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
Review/re-use this presentation:http://www.slideshare.net/digitaltattoo/
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For Your Reference... Digital Tattoo Pew Internet Research danah boyd | apophenia This is Me Open Thinking Frontline: Digital Nation: Life on the Virtual Frontier Common Sense Media (for educators) Statistics Canada -
Socio-demographic factors influencing use of the Internet) Deal.org Social Network Site Privacy: A Comparative Analysis of Six Sites.
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada
Photo credits
Arm and Ink | Flickr - Photo Sharing! (n.d.). . Retrieved September 24, 2010, from http://www.flickr.com/photos/question_everything/3710548944/
Candy Coloured Tunnel on Flickr - Photo Sharing! (n.d.). . Retrieved May 6, 2010, from http://www.flickr.com/photos/atomicjeep/2327546948/
Liverpool Street station crowd blur on Flickr - Photo Sharing! (n.d.). . Retrieved May 6, 2010, from http://www.flickr.com/photos/victoriapeckham/164175205/
Repeating Shadows on Flickr - Photo Sharing! (n.d.). . Retrieved May 6, 2010, from http://www.flickr.com/photos/nikonvscanon/1474906347/
The art of possibility on Flickr - Photo Sharing! (n.d.). . Retrieved May 6, 2010, from http://www.flickr.com/photos/debaird/178785182/