Welcome to My Footprint

Now, this is cybersafety that takes the right approach.  Instead of fear-mongering,  My Footprint SD focuses on the digital footprint we all leave behind and talks about how to manage that, which is EXACTLY the approach I want to take next year.

It offers two "real-life" scenarios each for high school and middle school, and one for elementary. It is pretty text heavy, so I'm not sure how well it will go over with students, but I like the handbook idea of students creating an online manual for others to use....or maybe a series of PSA's?

Thanks to Jamie, also, who commented on the previous post and recommended Netsmartz, as well as the Center for Safe and Responsible Internet Use.

Along these lines, Athur Levine has a cogent article on the Huffington Post, where he takes schools to task for blocking the very technologies students need to learn to use responsibly.  Money quote:

Schools today do not take into account the changing professional world that more than ever relies both on individual effort and networked teams. In an increasingly competitive global economy, American students are not performing well compared to those in many other nations. And rather than harnessing technologies that have become ubiquitous in young people's lives, American schools often avoid or even forbid them.