1. eSafetyLabel+ Ambassadors Team
Digital Footprint
eSafetyLabel+ Ambassadors Team

2. Context Lesson Plan Context Topic eSafety - Digital Footprint
Grade level
Middle School (Grade 6-8) (11-14 years)
Total learning time
90 minutes
Description
A lesson plan about the digital footprint and it's connection with educational, career and social prospects.
Aims
To help students: a) identify the significance of their digital footprints and the way those affect their online reputation, b) understand the advantages of a positive digital footprint and how to achieve it, c) realize that footprints affect their future education and job prospects.

3. Outcomes Outcomes Knowledge Define ‘digital footprint’ Comprehension
Recognize that digital footprints can be searched or shared. Recognize actions that leave footprints.
Application
Relate online safety with real life safety. Relate their future career with their on line reputation.
Analysis
Identify certain personal details that should keep private.
Synthesis
Develop positive digital footprints. Formulate ideas about what to do/don’t in order to protect their digital footprint.
Evaluation
Evaluate what information is appropriate to be put online. Judge positive and negative footprints.

4. Overview Lesson’s Sections Introduction
Outcomes
Lesson’s Sections
Knowledge
Introduction
Comprehension
What is a (positive/negative) digital footprint
Application
Who might care about your digital footprint?
Analysis
Negative consequences of a digital footprint
Synthesis
How to protect your digital footprint
Evaluation
Evaluation - Self Assessment Questionnaire

5. Introduction The aim of the introductory video and the discussion
SECTION
5 MIN
Introduction
The aim of the introductory video and the discussion
that follows is to stimulate the interest of the students.
Data Protection Day, European Commission, Published on 24 Jan 2011
This video is available online at:
Activity 0

6. What is a (positive/negative) digital footprint
SECTION
20 MIN
What is a (positive/negative) digital footprint
In Activity 1.1 students have to discover the meaning of the term: digital footprint.
Students working in couples have to study the 6 pictures of Activity 1.2 which aims to enable them: a) to understand that online actions leave footprints and b) to evaluate a footprint as positive or negative. The students have to find arguments to support their opinion and complete the worksheet.
Discussion among the students about the findings of the previous activity.
Presentation
Activity 1.1
Activity Worksheet

7. Who might care about your digital footprint?
SECTION
20 MIN
Who might care about your digital footprint?
In this section, in Activity 2, through the study of article snippets and the discussion that follows, students: a) seek to find out who might be interested in their digital footprints, b) realize that these footprints can be searched and disseminated, c) relate their future social life and career with their digital footprints. The findings are recorded in the activity's worksheet.
Activity Worksheet

8. Negative consequences of a digital footprint (1/2)
SECTION
20 MIN
Negative consequences of a digital footprint (1/2)
The third section emphasizes on negative consequences of a digital footprint through seven case studies, Activities
In Activity 3, the jigsaw technique is used. Class is divided into groups. Each group studies one case and records their findings in the activity's worksheet, then reports back their observations and key reflections in plenary.
Activity Activity Activity Activity 3.4

9. Negative consequences of a digital footprint (2/2)
SECTION
20 MIN
Negative consequences of a digital footprint (2/2)
Activity 3 aims:
a) the association of online security with real-life security,
b) the recognition of personal information that have to remain undisclosed,
c) the ability to evaluate information that is appropriate for disclosure.
Activity Activity Activity Worksheet

10. How to protect your digital footprint
SECTION
15 MIN
How to protect your digital footprint
The experience gained in the previous sections is used in Activity 4. Students are asked to decide what actions, attitudes or practices should be applied and what should be avoided in order to ensure positive digital footprints and their safety in general. The findings are summarized into an infographic.
Activity Worksheet

11. Evaluation - Self Assessment Questionnaire
SECTION
10 MIN
Evaluation - Self Assessment Questionnaire
The evaluation questionnaire in Activity 5 allows both teacher and students to rate: a) the degree of familiarity with the concept of digital footprint, b) the acknowledgement of its significance and the way in which it affects their future, but also c) the ability to make the right choices and decisions in their online life.
Activity 5

12. Questions