Digital Citizenship Lesson

• Project this smore for your homeroom students.
• Lead your students through discussion of the scenarios and videos. You can facilitate this as a whole group or smaller groups.

You have a disagreement with one of your teammates at a game and the coach ends up benching her for the remainder of the game. Afterwards, she is so upset that she sends you an angry text, blaming you for everything. You text back, trying to explain your side of things, but this angers her further and she ends up sending a series of mean text messages, calling you names and even threatening to put you “in your place” if you mess with her at the next game. What is your next step?

You and a friend like to joke on Facebook by insulting each other. Sometimes these insults include references to inappropriate behavior, making fun of classmates, and swearing. Even though you have set up your Facebook to keep the conversations private, your friend makes a copy of your chats for her parents see. Her parents call your school and your parents to tell them what has been happening. By the time you get to school the next day, everyone in your class knows what you have said. How do you feel about this and how will you handle it at school?

While you were in Middle School, you wrote a blog post where you criticized one of your teachers for being mean to you in class. You claim the teacher was not fair in her grading and she insulted you in front of your classmates. Further in the post, you ridicule the teacher’s age, race, and physical appearance. Now, you are in university and you are applying for a highly competitive internship. During the interview, the interviewer brings out a copy of the blog post and questions you about it. How do you think you would respond?

Your Facebook postings might win over your friends—but they could also cost you a job, a new study finds.

Recruiting platform Jobvite has released the 2014 edition of its annual Social Recruiting Survey, and the results might be disconcerting to those who tweet first and ask questions later. The data shows 93% of hiring managers will review a candidate’s social profile before making a hiring decision.

And that review matters: 55% have reconsidered a candidate based on what they find, with most (61%) of those double-takes being negative.

According to respondents:

• the worst thing you can do is make any kind of references to illegal drugs. That should probably be common sense—but in case it’s not, know that 83% of recruiters say doing so is a strong turn off
• Also on the “obviously don’t do this” list are “sexual posts,” which 70% of recruiters say will count against you
• Two thirds told Jobvite that posts including profanity reflected poorly
• Over half didn’t like posts on guns
• And 44% saw posts about alcohol as concerning
  

http://time.com/money/3510967/jobvite-social-media-profiles-job-applicants/

You begin to receive Snapchats from a user you don’t recognize. This person claims to go to your school and seems to know a lot of information about your school and your classes that makes you believe him. After a bit, he begins to ask you questions about you and your friends. However, when you ask for the person’s name, he avoids the question. What will you do?

A friend tags you in a picture on Facebook. The picture was taken last summer while you and others were at the beach. You don’t feel comfortable with the way you or your friends look in the picture. Other Facebook users have begun to post comments on the picture making fun of you and your friends. What will you do?