Digital Citizenship Activities

Ten Ideas to Encourage Appropriate Technology Use Among Students

Sameer Hinduja, Ph.D. and Justin W. Patchin, Ph.D.

Access document at https://cyberbullying.org/Digital-Citizenship-Activities-Educators.pdf

B.I.O.N.I.C. “Prevent Bullying by Just Saying H.I.”

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Learn more at http://www.bionicteam.org/tag/bully/

How to Spot Victims and Help Them

Source: Human Trafficking: How to Spot Victims and Help Them | Time.com http://time.com/4871378/human-trafficking-signs-report/

Victims and tipsters can call the National Human Trafficking Hotline at 1 (888) 373-7888 or text HELP or INFO to "BeFree" or 233733. All calls can be made anonymously. Reports can also be submitted through the hotline's online form here. If a victim is in immediate danger, authorities urge people to call 911. Concerned citizens should not confront a suspected trafficker or alert a victim to any suspicions, experts say.

Factitious Game: Can you spot the not?

Instagram Now Uses AI to Counter Spam and Offensive Comments

Instagram will now be integrating machine learning software with their platform to get rid of offensive comments and reduce spam too, in a total of nine languages worldwide. 

Learn more: 

http://www.guidingtech.com/68980/instagram-ai-block-spam-offensive-comments/

Be Internet Awesome!

With school out and summer break giving kids more time to spend on the Internet, it’s a great time to introduce Be Internet Awesome: a new way to encourage digital safety and citizenship.

https://blog.google/topics/families/be-internet-awesome-helping-kids-make-smart-decisions-online/

Harvard Rescinds Admission Of 10 Students Over Obscene Facebook Messages

This week saw a remarkable collision of free speech, toxic Internet culture and more, unfolding at one of the world's most prestigious universities.

At least 10 admitted Harvard students in the Class of 2021 had their admissions offers rescinded after a group exchange of racist and sexually offensive Facebook messages, the Harvard Crimson student newspaper reported this week.

Read more: 

http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2017/06/06/531591202/harvard-rescinds-admission-of-10-students-over-obscene-facebook-messages

Photo source and another article:
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2017/6/5/2021-offers-rescinded-memes/