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Career Education 8

Activity #1- Managing Your Digital Footprint

Part 1: What is a digital footprint?

Your digital footprint is all the information about you that appears online.

This includes photos, public posts, comments, texts, private messages, emails, and any activity in online accounts.

Everything you share in the digital world can become public and permanent like a tattoo, even if you don’t
intend for it to be. Once something is on the Internet, you should assume it is there forever.

Instructions: In this assignment, students will learn about what a digital footprint is and reflect on their digital habits. For Parts 1-
4, you may answer in point form. For Part 5, please complete in full sentences with 2-3 points (minimum) for each question.

A public post or comment can be seen by anyone, and even private posts and texts can be screen captured or shared
in other unintended ways.

Be aware of your digital footprint, stop and think carefully about what you want to share and with whom.

Answer the following questions:

1. What is in your digital footprint?

2. How long can your digital information last?

3. Who can see your public posts?

4. Looking at your social media activity, what are you concerned about? What can you do to change it?

Part 2: Digital Footprint Awareness

Watch the following video and answer the questions:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBg2YYV3Bts
 1. How is social media like a digital diary?

2. According to the video, what is a digital footprint?

3. Who might research your digital footprint?

4. Is it difficult to keep on top of your digital footprint?

5. What are three things that you can you do right now to clean up or protect your digital footprint?

Part 3: Digital Citizenship

Watch the following video and answer the questions:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfZN4_gP5kQ

1. Who are some of the people that can see your online history?

2. What are questions that you should ask yourself before you post?

3. What are some ways to protect your identity online?

4. How can you spot fake information?

5. After watching this video, what is one thing you can do right now to be a better digital citizen.

Part 4: Being a Responsible Digital Citizen

Watch the following video and answer the questions:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PgQNc0ro9Q

1. What is cyberbullying?
 2. What are five guidelines that you can follow to promote digital civility (polite and kind behaviour) online?

3. What is one thing you can start today to be a better digital citizen?

Part 5: Reflection [please complete in full sentences with 2-3 points (minimum) for each question]

1. What is one thing that you learned from this assignment that you didn’t know before? Will this change your
online habits, why or why not?

2. What surprised you about digital citizenship?

3. What would you like to learn more about?

4. If you could change one thing about your online activity, what would it be? How could that change make
things better for you?