Social Media and Digital Footprints: Our Responsibilities

How does using social media affect our digital footprints?

Social media can be a place to connect, learn, and, most of all, share. But how much do kids know about what they're sharing -- and not just about themselves but each other? Help students think critically about their digital footprints on social media.

Objectives:

• Identify reasons for using social media and the challenges that often come along with it.
• Reflect on the responsibilities they have that are related to digital footprints -- both their own and others' -- when they're using social media.
• Identify ways to make the most of social media while still caring for the digital footprints of themselves and others.

Vocabulary 

• digital footprint 
• oversharing

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