What is your Digital Footprint?
Discussion Questions:
1. What is your digital footprint?
2. What impact will your digital footprint have on your ability to get into college or get a job?
3. What are some possible consequences of your digital footprint?
Digital Citizenship* and Why is it Important?
*Digital citizenship can be defined as the norms of appropriate, responsible behavior with regard to technology use.
Discussion Questions:
1. When does sharing online become oversharing?
2. How do you stay true to yourself online?
3. How do you treat others online?
4. How do you use others' work online?
5. Are you a good digital citizen or not? Why or why not?
Sexting and Relationships Online
Discussion Questions
1. In what ways have online and social media made it easier to have relationships with people, and in what ways has social media made it more difficult to create long term meaningful relationships with people?
2. What impact do issues such as self esteem, peer pressure, and ignorance of legal ramifications** have on destructive online behavior such as sexting?
**Remember that the legal ramifications of sexting are very serious. If you are under age 18 and send explicit pictures to anyone you can be prosecuted as a sex offender. Once you are prosecuted as a sex offender you can never have your record cleared and it will be a stigma that will remain with you the rest of your life. You will have to register as sex offender wherever you live or move, and you can never be within 100 yards of any school.
