A digital footprint, sometimes called a digital dossier, is the body of data that exists as a result of actions and communications online that can in some way be traced back to an individual.
Survey students about their digital footprints
The aim of this activity is to gain a deeper understanding of our students’ digital activities. I collected the responses of 10 students between the ages of 8 to 15 about their digital footprints. I will then share the most surprising findings and any new insights with my peers in this MOOC.
If you have a Google account, then you can copy and edit this Digital Footprint Survey template with some questions included, the ones I used for my Challenge.
They were all my friends’ children. They wanted to participate on my Challenge and help me to arrive to some conclusions about the students’ digital footprints in the digital era we are living in. Thank you to all of them..
If you have a Google account, then you can copy and edit this Digital Footprint Survey template with some questions included, the ones I used for my Challenge.
Conclusions:
1. Parents are more concerned about their children’s use of social media services than any other online activity. Children are receiving from their parents more advice and information about how to use the Internet and all the social media communications such as WhatsApp,
Facebook, Snapshot, etc.
3. Parents supervise what their children do when they are connected to any social media and they give them permission to be in one of them.
Facebook, Snapshot, etc.
2. This range of students start to use mobile phones, tablets, computers when they are very young (5 years old most of them have used any electronic devices).
4. The most popular social channel where our children/ students are interested and involved is WhatsApp, even the youngest ones. Everybody must know that you are sharing even your phone number when you are using WhatsApp. It is
better to use Telegram, instead.
5. Parents Make sure their children/ our students know to never offer personal information to anyone online. You avoid ciber bullying. These young students are not facing this. They are under their parents’ control.
Please remember our digital footprint is there for the world to see, think twice before posting anything — either as parents or kids or educators.
What a great post, Coromoto! Amazing how young children start to use devices!. One of my friends in the US told me all her first graders already had an iphone...in 2015! Wow! It is so difficult but impossible to check how your own children get engaged online, where and to who they talk to, or what they do. Here tweens and teens use Instagram and Snapchat, but, although Whatsapp is very popular among all the generations, the youngest do not use it on a daily basis. So true we all leave a digital footprint, but it is so hard for kids to understand it!. Excellent, interesting survey and results!.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely!! Thank you Fabiana for your comments. And that's truth. Young children are using technological devices but parents are starting to be conscious of supervising, explaining about its use, and also connections to the internet or any social digital media. Fortunately!!
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