Let's get digital

Learning Objectives

• Explore the role that digital media plays in your life.
• Identify examples of online behaviors that may hurt, embarrass, or offend others.
• Learn that you have a public presence online called a digital footprint.

How do you communicate using digital technologies?

Favorite way of communicating?

Which is closer to the truth?

Digital communication is changing relationships.

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Media Balance

Using media in a way that feels healthy and in balance with other life activities (family, friends, school, hobbies, etc.)

Positive impacts?
Negative impacts?

sexting

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sending/receiving sexually explicit photos + videos by text message or other digital technologies

In 2019,
among 12- to 17-year-olds...

*14% sent nude images
*23% received nude images

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Consent

permission for something to happen or agreement to do something

While most sexting is CONSENSUAL,
around 10-20% of sexters have experienced a privacy violation.

Do you think sexting should be against the law?

In the state of Colorado...

-possessing photos without permission
-sharing photos without permission
-sending unsolicited photos
-photos of multiple people
-clear intent to cause distress

Consequences

Consequences

• a worldwide audience
• school suspension/expulsion
• loss of extra-curricular activities
• stereotyped by other students
• depression

What can we do?

consent & Privacy

It's not okay to...

It's not okay to...

• create or distribute a sexual image without the subject's permission
• send an unsolicited photo
• coerce or pressure someone to produce a sexual image

responsible bystander?

responsible bystander

• never forward private images
• report immediately (within 72 hours)
• never shame victims

cyberbullying

bullying through technologies-social networking sites, cell phones, and apps, messaging, etc.

DID YOU KNOW?
*Cyber Harrassment is illegal in Colorado. (Kiana's Law)

Cyberbullying has to rise
to criminal intent to
alarm, annoy or harass.

Cyberbullying can be either
direct or INDIRECT.

consequences

• criminal charges
• suspension and expulsion
• depression

What can we do?

Ignore

block

screenshot

Tell someone

Online relationships

Positive interactions between strangers online?

Uncomfortable interactions between strangers online?

Online predators

a commonly used term for someone who uses the Internet to develop inappropriate relationships with kids or teens

stereotypes

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Teens are more likely to receive requests to talk about sexual things online from other teens or from young adults (18-25) than they are from older adults.

Focusing on the stereotype of Online Predators makes it harder to recognize other risky relationships.

Risky online relationships don't always involve total strangers; sometimes they involve people teens have initially met offline.

Nick and Sheyna

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RED FLAG FEELING
When something happens that makes you feel uncomfortable, worried, sad, or anxious

Questions to Consider

Has this person
hinted asked about
anything sexual?

Has this person asked to
keep anything with the relationship secret?

Have I felt pressured
or manipulated by
this person?

Do I feel true to
myself when talking with
this person?

If you're uncomfortable...

Everything we discussed...

Digital Footprint

All the information online about a person either posted by that person or others, intentionally or unintentionally

Digital reputation

What people think about you based on what they see online (social media, public information, news, etc.)

We define who we are.

The Internet should generally be considered public.

Private can become public if passed on.

positive digital footprint

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