Lesson video

Hello.

My name is Mrs. Ford.

Welcome to lesson four in our unit, Online and the media: Harmful contact.

In this lesson, we will learn about sharing and removing material online.

We will recap our learning about digital footprints from the year seven unit and the issues associated with this.

We will also examine our right for erasure, privacy and security.

For today's lesson, you will need an exercise book or some paper and a pen.

You may choose to have an alternative colour pen to improve your work following feedback given in this video.

Before you started today's lesson video, you will have been asked to complete the introductory quiz.

If you haven't done that now, I would suggest that you go out of this lesson, complete the introductory quiz, and then join us back.

In today's lesson, we're going to be looking at the dangers that are there by sharing material online.

We will be looking at our rights and what rights we have online.

We are going to ask are we able to remove materials once they are online? And then there's an exit quiz at the end of the lesson.

Keywords that we're looking at today.

Our first keyword is digital footprint.

Your digital footprint is a traceable log of your online activity.

Anytime you visit a website, you use your social media, you send any emails or you make any searches into a search engine, or you put any information online at all, that increases your digital footprint.

Therefore, the more that you are online, the larger your digital footprint is.

When I talk about online material in today's lesson, I mean, any data that you share online.

This may be posts, comments, photos, videos, anything you share with your friends or followers, any documents that you've created, and much more.

Quick task to get your brain going and to get you thinking about your digital footprint.

I would like you to create a spider diagram of how you have used the internet in the past 24 hours.

Don't forget to remember if you've used any online messaging services.

Which websites have you used? Which applications have you used? If you don't use the internet often, you might want to do this for the last week.

In the centre of your mind map, you might include my digital footprint.

For example, today you have accessed the Oak National Academy website.

Pause the video and add to that mind map now, please.

Well, let's look at some information I've put on.

If you've missed any of this off and you have used this, you can add it to your mind map too.

I'm going to start at the top and work clockwise around the mind map.

Have you researched online for any homework? Have you accessed any web programmes for schoolwork? This might be Google classroom or Microsoft teams or you might have used Zoom for any lessons.

Have you accessed any social media? Watched any videos or any vlogs? Have you read any blogs written by anyone? Have you gone to your school website for any reason? Have you connected to an online gaming platform? Or have you bought anything via online shopping to buy presents or games online? Pause the video and add some more information to your mind map please.

So now we're going to look at sharing materials online.

There are many benefits and drawbacks to sharing materials online with others.

I'd like you to create a table to show your thinking and your understanding of possible benefits and drawbacks of sharing things online with others.

Pause the video and create a table just like the one below now, please.

Social feedback, and you can add some of these answers to your work, please if you've missed them off.

The benefits of sharing online might be that it helps you to keep connected with your friends and family members.

It might help you to find a job or a new career.

It can be an outlet for your emotions and you're able to express your expressive side to others.

The more you share online, the more your advertising will become tailored to what you like and what you don't like.

You can also use it to raise awareness to educate others about things that you are passionate about.

The possible drawbacks of sharing material online include that your information may reach people outside of your trusted circle.

If you post something on your profile, this can be screenshotted or shared even if your settings are at the highest position.

So if you don't want somebody who is not in your trusted circle to see the material you are sharing, don't share it.

Also, your details are less personal and become public when you are sharing that information.

You might be having a really hard time and want to express that and share that emotions.

However, you can't be trusted that you can't trust that only the people you are posting for will see that, that information becomes public.

Once your information is online, it's extremely difficult to delete what goes online.

You might also start to receive spam or junk mail.

You might receive negative feedback, which upsets you more than if you hadn't have shared in the first place.

Also employees in universities do sometimes use your social media profiles to assess how suitable you are for a job role or for cost that you are applying for.

Your digital footprint includes materials that are shared publicly.

This includes your social media profiles, which are also things that you share privately, emails, text messages that you send.

All of these items can be copied and shared outside of the people that you trust to see this information for.

Before sharing any material, I want you to think.

Do you want somebody else, for example, your headteacher or principal, your grandparents, or any future employers seeing the material that you are posting? If not, don't post it.

These things are very difficult to delete in the future.

But what are your rights surrounding this? Well, as a digital citizen, we all have rights and responsibilities.

A digital citizen is somebody who uses the internet.

Part of the global community of internet users.

These rights and responsibilities are similar to the ones that we share offline.

The two main ones that you need to know for this unit is that both on and offline, you have the right to privacy, and the right to security.

These rights protect you from somebody accessing your material without permission.

The biggest example of this is hacking.

It also protects you from somebody sharing your personal material without having given permission to them.

For example, if they share your pictures, your messages, your emails, et cetera, your rights protect you from that.

They also protect you from somebody putting pressure on you to share personal materials.

Personal materials, in this conversation with you, I am talking about materials that are your own personal information or the personal information of somebody else.

The key thing that you need to know is that if somebody's rights are violated, their rights to privacy, their rights to security are violated, this is a serious offence.

And it can even be criminal.

You can get in trouble from the police or the courts if your rights are upheld or the rights of others are upheld by you.

So here's a quick task for you.

Here's Aisha.

Zoya and Aisha have had a wonderful time together.

And they were out for the day and they decided to take some videos of themselves messing around.

Without asking Aisha, Zoya has posted them on her social media page.

Aisha is really worried that her friends and family will see the video that Zoya has posted online.

Does this go against Aisha's rights? And if so, why? If not, why not? Pause the video and have a think about that now please.

Here's some feedback about that.

It does go against Aisha's rights, not just to privacy, but also to security.

Aisha was not asked permission to share the video.

Her personal identity is being shared online to all known people to Aisha.

The first thing she needs to do is contact Zoya immediately and ask Zoya to remove the content.

If Zoya does refuse, Aisha then needs to report it to the platform that it was shared on and tell a trusted adult.

This might be somebody at school or it might be somebody in the home that Aisha lives with.

So removing online material is very difficult.

But any material, whether it's shared by you or somebody else can also be hard to trace, which then makes it more difficult to remove.

This includes any material that is inoffensive and also material that can be potentially compromising.

This means that it could damage somebody's reputation and their character in society.

You do have the right to erasure.

And this means that you can ask for your personal information to be removed, but there are limits to this.

This is called the right to erasure and companies don't have to agree to do this.

They don't have to do it.

It's not set out in law.

If materials have been copied and then shared by someone who isn't just you, it can be impossible to guarantee that it will never be seen again.

Think about the materials that you are creating and think about the materials as you are sharing, because this is a key thing to be thinking about.

There is little chance that everything that you post can be deleted forever.

If something is shared though, what can you do about it? Well, first of all, ensure that you are only sharing appropriate information about yourself, make sure you think before you post or share.

What are you thinking of? That's right.

Would you like your head teacher or principal to see it? Would you like your grandparents to see it? Would you like people in the rest of your town to see it? If not, don't post it, don't share it.

Appropriate information should only be shared, but appropriate information depends on a situation.

Is it safe to share this? How old is the person, either sharing it or being shared about? What is the purpose behind you sharing something? Who do you intend to see this? And who else could see it? Does the person who is sharing have permission to do that? And is the material appropriate for everyone in the community to view? If it's not, it shouldn't be posted.

Here's John.

John's been on a school trip today and he's had a great time and he wants to share that great time with other people.

Whilst they were on the coach on the way to the place, John decided to take some selfies with other people sat near him on the coach.

Is it appropriate for John to share these pictures? Pause the video and have a think about that, please.

Before deciding on whether this is appropriate, John would need to ask permission for the people who are in the pictures to see if they are happy with their images being shared.

Sometimes there are reasons in which we are not aware of why people wouldn't want their information being shared online.

And we have the responsibility to ensure that we follow up their requests.

So John would need to ask.

When they reached the place where the school trip was, John checked in to his location on his social media profile.

He has also tagged in some of his classmates who are friends or followers on his social media platform.

Is this appropriate? Should John be tagging people in to the location of where they are? Pause the video and have a think, please.

Yet again, John needs to ask people for permission.

They might have reasons that John isn't aware of as to why they don't want people knowing where they are during the school day.

During the school trip, John's teacher falls over.

The teacher needs to go to first aid and John videos the teacher limping with the help of a couple of pupils.

John wants to share the video of his teacher limping because he thinks it's quite hilarious.

Is it appropriate for John to share this video, either group chats or social media platforms? Pause the video and have a think, please.

Firstly, I want to highlight that John should be more concerned about the teacher rather than getting his phone out and videoing.

All too often we see people who are struggling and some people will take their phones out to record what's happening.

What we should be doing is being concentrating or making sure that we are helping people who need it.

Posting a video of school staff without permission is completely inappropriate and it can land you in a lot of trouble.

So John should not be posting this video Brief reflection.

How do you protect your privacy and securities online? I want you to think about this.

John's friend has become really upset.

John videoed them on the school trip and he has now posted the video to his social media page.

The friend did not give John any permission to do this and he has asked John to take this video down.

But John is refusing.

What advice would you give to the friend? Pause the video, write a piece of advice on your piece of paper please, that you would share with the friend to help them in this situation.

So in this situation, there are different things that you can be doing to help.

Social media platforms have already got inbuilt reporting systems that allow you to report any breaches in your rights.

Every platform will include instructions on how to report posts or images to them.

Your rights are also protected in law in the Malicious Communications Act of 1988.

You'll be able to select a post or a profile.

And with that postdoc profile, there'll also be an options to report.

It is also highly beneficial to block that user once you've reported them to ensure that you don't see the content that will upset you again.

As ever, you must always tell a trusted adult and get further support and advice from them.

Well, thank you for joining me for lesson four, and I look forward to seeing you in lesson five of our units.