Ever heard of a television personality? This follows the same general idea.
You see a digital persona is like your personality on the internet, how you portray yourself. You could paint yourself as a hater, a wise person or any other personality. After all, there are thousands of combinations. Here is a video that explains what a digital identity is, despite the examples not being very wholesome, the beginning does explain what digital identity is quite well:
This website also does a pretty good job in teaching you what it means to be a good digital citizen:
https://www.teachthought.com/the-future-of-learning/the-definition-of-digital-citzenship/
There are many reasons why this is important, now so more than ever. Colleges and universities now will look into your digital trail, to see how to portray yourself to others and how you represent yourself. In the case that if they accept you, you will be representing the school as well. Obviously, an identity can be developed throughout the years and it would change drastically from third grade to tenth.
A trail may fade but it doesn’t disappear, the truly terrifying thing about these internet identities is that anyone can follow your trail and look into who you are and how you are like. Obviously, there are many different ways that you can cover the trail but it can always be rediscovered. It’s like a shadow, barely visible when you want it to be but it will always follow you like a staring ghost.
There are many supposed “rules” for digital citizenship, except there are no real rules on the internet. There are no laws in the world where everyone is connected, only how you control yourself. There are many things that people can see about you, the question is what you want people to see. There are no rules to follow, especially in a place where you can easily be anonymous and disappear before anyone knew you were there. Here is a video that you can watch that talks about digital citizenship:
Although what this man says is true, he doesn’t account for a few things:
1.) All of these things with the exception of hacking are not crimes, and consequences can be easily avoided as long as you have the right skill set.
2.) The point of being a bully online IS that it would be harder for people to find out who you are or track you down, people don’t seem to understand that and believes that morals will save the day.
3.) There are so many variables that go into these situations that he did not account for, real life isn’t a fantasy story, a lot of the times even when reported, it is the bully that wins because the damage has been done and they can easily get away.
As students, we are encouraged to be good people on the internet, both for the community and for ourselves. But to follow the encouragement is really our own choices, not some law that we must absolutely abide by in order to be on the internet.
CSUCI, Teaching & Learning Innovations. YouTube, YouTube, 25 June 2015, www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJzuDcyR0WM.
Social, Grom. YouTube, YouTube, 17 Oct. 2015, www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VnAU2lbf2c.
https://www.teachthought.com/the-future-of-learning/the-definition-of-digital-citzenship/
Your post is clear and informative, easy to follow your train of thought (thank you), but you embed links into your text, you can let your followers learn more where you learned it if they are interested.
In this post you write “A trail may fade but it doesn’t disappear,” which is interesting to me. Because you have not created Grade 9 and Lang & Lit category in Grade 9, this post jumped up:
http://share.kas.tw/brihun22/2018/04/16/my-thoughts-on-blogposts-as-a-mandatory-part-of-the-curriculum/
and I wonder how you would respond to: 1) your argument could be applied to many assignments in school, so where would that leave us? and 2) in grade 9 you have much freedom to express yourself within the framework of an assignment, so there you can express yourself freely so long as it’s appropriate to the time, place, and audience, right?