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standards
ISTE.NETS addressed
4. Promote and model digital citizenship and responsibility
Teachers understand local and global societal issues and responsibilities in an evolving digital culture and exhibit legal and ethical behavior
in their professional practices.
a. Advocate, model, and teach safe, legal, and ethical use of digital information and technology, including respect for copyright, intellectual
property, and the appropriate documentation of sources.
Teachers continuously improve their professional practice, model lifelong learning, and exhibit leadership in their school and professional
community by promoting and demonstrating the effective use of digital tools and resources.
Exhibit leadership by demonstrating a visionof technology infusion, participating in shared decision making and community building, and
developing the leadership and technology skills of others.
Securing data
Password strength
Use a combination of letters, numbers, and symbols
Use an appropriate length (at least 8 characters)
Have a different password for each site or service
Do not use information that is easy to guess, such as your birthdate, phone
number, etc.
Password privacy
Do not share passwords with others
Use an appropriate length
Backing up data
Regularly back up data in case of computer malfunction or hardware
failure
Back up important files on more than one device or drive
Appropriate
Adam is concerned that his notebook was open to
the page with his password. He immediately goes
to a computer, logs in, and changes his password.
Adam decides that he needs to keep his password
in a more secure location.
inappropriate
Not thinking anything about it, Adam gathers his
books and goes to his next class. The next day, he
he gets a call from the Dean of Students, who
informs him that another student has reported
receiving a threatening email from his account.
The student receiving the email did not know
Adam and was not sure why he had sent the
email. Adam tells the Dean that he did not send
the email and that someone else must have his
password.
Hacked?
IF YOUVE BEEN COMPROMISED
Immediately change all passwords; financial passwords
first. Do not use that password in
the future.
Disconnect your computer from the Internet.
Restart your computer in safe mode and back up your data.
Report stolen finances or identities and other cybercrime to
the Internet Crime Complaint
Center at www.ic3.gov.
Report the attack to your university and the local
authorities.
Summary
digital citizen - anyone who uses digital tools such as computers, cell phones, or the internet in their work, school or for recreation. Just like citizens of a city have to adopt
rules and standards of behavior in order to live together, those of us in the digital world should do the same.
We should
Securing devices
Securing data
Back up data
We should
Securing Data
Password strength
Do not use information that is easy to guess, such as your birthdate, phone number, etc.
Password privacy
REferences
http://www.pensacolachs.org/webpages/capplications/index.cfm?
subpage=428867
http://generationsafe.ikeepsafe.org/professional-development/achievingdigital-security/
Ribble, M. (2011).Digital Citizenship in Schools. Washington, DC:ISTW
https://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/story.php?title=mty3odg5oq1lau