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How does our online activity affect the digital footprints of ourselves and others?

Lesson Objectives

  • Define the term "digital footprint" and identify the online activities that contribute to it.

  • Identify ways they are -- and are not -- in control of their digital footprint.

  • Understand what responsibilities they have for the digital footprints of themselves and others.

Vocabulary 

responsibility: a duty you have to yourself or others

digital footprint: a record of what you do online, including the sites you visit and the things you post; it can also include things that others post that involve you

fossil: parts of an animal saved and preserved within the earth for up to millions of years

inference: an educated guess based on evidence