The article I chose to read is, Learning Connections: Students Dig Up Dirt to Learn about Internet Safety. This was written by Jesse Morehouse, a teacher of computer science. This article mainly discusses internet safety and how easily people can find information about others on the internet. Morehouse teaches a lesson to his class every year about personal information being available to anyone on the internet. He has the students look up information on the internet about him, and they all discuss as a class what they have found. Then he gives the students guidelines to follow and look up information about a complete stranger. They share with the class everything they have found about this person they have never met.
I think this article is very important. Morehouse's assignment that he discusses in the article teaches students to be more careful and aware of what they post on the internet about themselves. I learned that people's privacy can be invaded at any time on the internet, so it is best not to post very personal information on social media websites. I would like to know how the internet has gotten so out of control and why people are not able to protect information about themselves anymore.
I really enjoyed this article because I love the assignment Morehouse teaches his students. As a future teacher, I would like to copy and teach Morehouse's assignment because I think it is important to educate students about internet safety. This assignment is also fun and interactive for the students.
Morehouse, J. (2012, August 07). learning connections: Students dig up dirt to learn about internet safety .
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http://www.iste.org/learn/publications/learning-leading/issues/september-october-2011/learning-connections-students-dig-up-dirt-to-learn-about-internet-safety
I like how you talked about easy it is for people's privacy to be invaded online now. Do you feel that this is due to the recent up rise social networks? I agree that this lesson should be done in future classrooms and I wonder if the problem of online privacy will increase or decrease in the up coming years. Great Job!
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I read this article also and at first it really freaked me out that students could find this important information on someone they have never met. It showed a very important lesson to them that they should always protect themselves on the internet. Awesome job!
ReplyDeleteValerie, you bring up an excellent point when you ask the rhetorical question of how the internet has gotten so out of control, and why people are unable to protect themselves. I am sure many others asking the same thing, and still there are others who are working to identify the most critical issues with privacy and trying to provide solutions through codified principles and regulatory legislation, so measures of privacy and protection will always be possible. It can be argued that the World Wide Web is exponentially larger than any world government, and the internet as a whole may be beyond our control. It can be said we cannot avoid all the risks associated with the internet, and because of this participation on the Web will forever come with inherent, irreversable, and immovale risks. However, there is a reason to be encouraged. We hold a great deal of power in ensuring that our privacy and protection is maintained. By engaging the internet in an ethical and respectable manner, and continually educating ourselves about known risks and avoiding them, we will retain a great deal of the control I am speaking about.
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