The two things I plan on working with my students on are acceptable use of the internet & posting personal information on the web.
I already spend time talking to my students about plagiarism and am amazed at how many students think it is acceptable to copy and paste anything on the Internet and use it as their own. I remember at one time I had 75% of my students fail my Code Blue biology project due to plagiarism and I've now acquired the reputation of being a stickler on plagiarism. I intend to continue to work with my students on how to properly use the information on the Internet and filter through the garbage. I will use more hoax websites while doing this to help show that not all info is good info.
In regards to posting personal information, I will spend more time discussing this in class and will utilize my blog to help with educating people on this as well. I will share with them instances where people have had facebook postings come back to haunt them in the workplace (in fact, I'm the subject of one of those stories :). I will also show them examples where things posted on the Internet have been used in investigations, both criminal and civil, and that the footprint left on the Internet never goes away. This would be a good time to discuss cyber-bullying as well, and our district is working on a plan to combat this issue.
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