Alan November discusses four things students should learn about technology:
1. Global empathy
2. Social and ethical responsibility on the web
3. The permanence of information posted online
4. Critical thinking about the information found online
I enjoyed the article and agreed with him on many points, especially about teaching students of the permanence of information posted online. I do think that many students do not realize the web is archived every few days. That is definitely something that needs to be taught and emphasized to students. I think that next year I will do an exercise similar to the one November describes in the article to show students how "deleted" items are not truly deleted.
In higher education, it would also be valuable to look at how Facebook information about a person doesn't have to be posted by that person. See if the students can find their picture or information about themselves on other sites. It can be an eye opener.
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