What Does a Google of Your Name Uncover?
If your students or their parents google you, will they find you on the web? Will you be pleased with what they find? Google can be your best friend or… I asked because I know our students don’t think about the power of what they write/post on the web. If they don’t talk about their conversations, published photos, videos, etc., to their parents/guardians, then they think they have privacy! I propose that we use online time with our students to help them use the web as a resume: get them to think about what college admissions counselors will find when they google them, or what prospective grant givers would want to find, or what future employers will find, or what future customers will find. The list goes to infinity, and the data they are putting out there is eternal. What can we as educators do to help our students use the power of new technology for good?
June 17th, 2007 at 5:54 pm
One thing I will be doing is watching the news, newspapers, web news, etc., to find examples of people whose futures have been harmed because of some stupid youth prank they did on the web. I’m thinking I’ll start a file of these kinds of stories to share with students about this issue.