What is Digital Safety and Security, Anyway??? (Participate 4.1.2)

In today's online world, it is critical we attempt to make it as safe a world as we possibly can. What does that mean to an educator?  It means that we need to make conscious efforts to keep our students protected from potential cyber-harm, just as we would make every attempt to keep our students protected from harm within a traditional brick and mortar school setting.

Therefore, we need digital safety and security.  So...what is digital safety and security, anyway? Digital safety and security are the ways in which we are proactive in keeping things safe in the online world.  Safe from potential online predators, thieves, and scammers.  Safe also from creating a detrimental digital footprint could haunt us later in life.


What is the most important step we can take to help ensure our digital safety?

Take the time to install and utilize a quality security software that updates automatically.  There are even some available that are FREE!  There are no excuses to skip this step!

What strategies can we use to consistently keep digital safety in the forefront of the minds of our students?  

These videos below help explain the importance of your digital footprint and things you can do to make safety a priority.  Sometimes all the lecturing in the world will not move students to believe they have a digital footprint until they SEARCH for themselves! 

In my opinion, that "learning by doing" will make a lasting difference in what our students choose to do or refrain from doing in order to stay safe--in the virtual world or in the real world!

Please check out this link to my social bookmark collection which includes resources to learn more about digital safety and security. https://delicious.com/lmjonesga