e-Safety quite often concentrates on risks and behaviours, but if you really want to know about e-safety it is a good idea to step out of the box now and again and take a more holistic view of technology and the Internet.
Have a search on various social networking sites and see how students are finding e-safety lessons incredibly boring; using the same old videos and resources over and over again (don’t do this, you can’t do that) is creating a culture of apathy which is potentially increasing risk.
Ted Talks is a fantastic resource with some truly inspiring videos of speakers and all manner of subjects. If you are a teacher you could think about using videos as part of a lesson to raise a discussion point; you could use videos as part of a collaborative project; the opportunities are endless. You could even set homework by embedding questions within the video.
Here’s a couple of examples for you:
In this video (about 10 minutes) Evan Williams talks about how the original concept of Twitter has changed from a broadcast service to a collaborative tool.
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By stopping at various points in this short talk, you could:
- Invite comments about the appropriate sharing of information.
- Give examples of inappropriate information sharing.
- Discuss the “digital reach” – or how far and wide your tweet actually goes.
- Discuss context – or how 140 characters can be interpreted in one way by one person, or another way by others.
Here’s a video from Adam Ostrow who talks (for about 6 minutes) on “your last update”. A fascinating short talk about creating an archive of your life prior to death. Essentially, as we all tweet, blog, Facebook update and all manner of other things, we leave behind us our digital footprint.
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Discussion points here could include:
- How would you like to be remembered?
- Would you leave behind your “real” history or would you have to have a huge clearout first?
- Is there a moral dilemma in a digital footprint where context is conveyed (or viewed) differently?
And finally, here’s a really amusing poem (4 minutes) from Rives, “If I Owned the Internet” from 2006
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Ted Talks is such a fantastic resource for e-safety discussion points; I’ll share more as I find them.