Digital Safety Reflection

All four of these topics cover all the aspects of how to safely browse the web as cyber safety concerns are becoming immeasurable important when interacting with people or websites on a computer, typically through the internet. When using the internet, you are ultimately making connections to strangers so it is extremely important to understand the risks behind online behavior. Fair User Practices and Copyright Act is important especially when working with content that is not yours. According to the Ohio State University, Fair use is "to solely protect creators rights...copyright is intended to promote progress, creativity and innovation for the benefit of society as a whole (2014). Cyberbullying is rampant nowadays as everyone has digital devices.

As stated by stop bullying.gov, cyberbullying includes sending, posting or sharing negative, harmful, false or mean content about someone else. It can include sharing personal or private information about someone else causing embarrassment or humiliation. Some instances of cyberbullying crosses the line into unlawful or criminal behavior (2013). It's always important to report cyberbullying as it can negatively affect a person's life. This also ties in with textual harassment and sexting, which usually involves sending repetitive messages via cellphone or over the internet. I would keep all the topics if I were to personally teach them to students. I would probably remove textual harassment and sexting as it can be covered under cyber bullying. If I ever do decide to teach these topics, I will have each student write up an assignment of a real life situation of every topic covered under digital safety, so each person can safely identify and be much more alert when it does happen.

Our web conferencing tools was just through whatsapp, and google docs. We basically split up our parts of our presentation and have each person specialize in their topic. I believe our group cooperates well, and our content flowed well because we prepared ahead of time for the presentation. Whatsapp is a good conferencing tool as we just think communicating through text is sufficient to get the message through.

 

References:

Human Services, U. H. (2018, May). What is Cyberbullying. Retrieved April 18, 2019, from https://www.stopbullying.gov/cyberbullying/what-is-it/index.html

University, O. S. (2018, February). Fair User Practices Act. Retrieved April 18, 2019, from https://library.osu.edu/blogs/copyright/2014/02/17/fair-use-101-why-do-we-need-fair-use/