- What is the most important step we can take in terms of ensuring our digital safety?
- What strategies can we take to help our students consistently keep digital safety in the forefront of their minds?
Ensuring digital safety in an online teaching environment is the online teachers responsibility. To do so, he must make sure that students know what is expected of them and that they are aware of dangers online. Too many students don't think of online safety at all or only think "Safety Third!"
To ensure digital safety for students, teachers should set strict limits on what is allowed in his online world. He should emphasize what is expected and what is prohibited. This is of particular importance in forums where students should be taught to 1. stay on topic and 2. be respectful. The teacher can help students by having using different types of forums. For example, using Moodle, a teacher can have students post their own thoughts before allowing them to see any of the other students responses.
Students must also be taught to use online resources but to know how to vet those resources, both for accuracy and for computer safety. Addressing this early in a course and emphasizing it throughout will help students be cognizant of online dangers from malware to identity theft to copyright infringement.
Below is a link to my digital bookmarking sight with some resources that I think will help students be aware of digital dangers online.
Feel free to explore these, and if you have any suggestions for me for others, leave a comment.
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