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24.1.- Following your steps (P31)

  • FOLLOWING YOUR STEPS

    Image of Programa Educativo Foro Nativos Digitales from Junta de Extremadura (Consejería de Educación y Empleo)

    OBJECTIVE

    Familiarise students with the concept of digital identity.

    TIME EXPECTED

    20/25 minutes.

    DEVELOPMENT

    To get to know the concept of "digital identity", we are going to propose a simile between our physical identity and our digital identity. The students, individually, will write down on a piece of paper three physical traits, three psychological traits and three hobbies, likes or interests that identify them. They will have this information in duplicate (two papers or notes), in such a way that each student will keep their personal information on one paper, and the other paper, which will be anonymous (no name or surname of any student is indicated), will be included in a bag. Afterwards, the teacher randomly distributes these anonymous papers among the students, and they have to find out to which classmate these identities correspond by analysing the written information. Each student writes down on the paper they have received the name and surname of the classmate they think the information corresponds to, whether they are wrong or not.

    Subsequently, in a large group, all the identities are read out to check whether the identity-name relationship is correct or not. To carry out these checks properly, the students use the paper they have been keeping from the beginning.

    After this activity, a reflective debate is opened between teacher and students, raising the following questions in our Forum Section.

    1. Do you share personal information about yourself online, such as photographs, videos, interests, hobbies, name, address, phone number, email, school information, etc.?

    2. Can you easily identify your friends based on the personal information they share, how do you do it or could you do it?

  • Can you be identified online by tracking your personal information?
    Yes
    19 votes (54.29%)
    No
    2 votes (5.71%)
    Maybe
    14 votes (40.00%)

  • Evidence

    CEIP Bilingüe Ciudad de Mérida

    Showing and analysing the results in an online class in the fifth and sixth year groups.

    CEIP Bilingüe Ciudad de Mérida

    5th grade "B" - Teacher: María José Caballero

    FOLLOWING YOUR STEPS - ITALY

    In class 1B of our middle school we discute about this questions: if we share personal information in social network and if we can easily identify our friends based on the personal information they share. Our students answered that they share their personal information and that they can identify their friend based on personal information

    7.a group in Szignum School Makó, Hungary

    Students wrote some adjectives about themselves and nicknames, usernames and other things that they share in the Internet profiles. These were typical inner features and appearance or habits, too. They wrote it anonymously and with printed letters so no one could recognize their handwritings.
    We mixed the papers and one of the students came to choose one.
    After reading they tried to recognize the person.
    Sometimes it was difficult to find out the person, however they know each other very well.
    Answering my questions about the Internet, they told they do not use personal details and recognisable things about themselves.
    They enjoyed the task very much.

    CEIP Bilingüe Ciudad de Mérida

    The 6th A class followed the instructions given on this page to carry out the activity. The characteristics that the students wrote were accompanied by drawings.