Digital Identities & Digital Security

The digital world, just like the outside world, makes it necessary for you to have an identity. However, these identities can be altered in many ways, which then doesn’t truthfully represent the person that created that identity in the first place. Sometimes you may also not even realise it but one person can contain more than one digital identity – to suit different situations (Howell, 2012).

Having a digital identity matters for these two main reasons;

• to protect your real life identity
• to be able to communicate with strangers without giving too much of your true identity away

Having the ability to protect the information you share to the “world wide web” is very important as this may be the difference between keeping yourself safe and putting yourself in danger. In this day and age, every piece of technology we own become a part of our identity. Phones can now have our finger prints, voice recognition and even face recognition. These are good for some reasons but the internet is not always a wonderful place and crimes such as identity theft can occur. Identity theft is a crime in which someone claims another’s identity, usually for economic gain (Department of Justice, 2017). These crimes happen more often than we realise and need to be taken into consideration when entering the digital world and it is due to this reason that it’s important when we’re online, we take extra precautions in the information that we provide in the digital world.

It’s always fun to connect with people from all over the world, however we don’t always know if they are who they say they are. It is very important to make sure that we are aware of this and only share a bit of our true identity on public, online.

Digital World at the Palm of our Hands. Accessed Oct 19 2018.

Digital Fluency

Digital Fluency – Visual Summation

Participation and Digital Divide

Participation and Digital Divide Audio

Reflection

This assessment challenged a lot of my technological knowledge and skills. I’ve learnt how to use certain programs I’ve never used before and have enjoyed learning about these programs. It has also challenged my time management skills and I believe I’m constantly growing as a student of Bachelor of Education. This assessment showed me how much I want to be a teacher in the digital world.

I embrace technology and am willing to learn as much about it and I believe this attitude will benefit me in the future as teacher. The eagerness to keep up with the times ensures that as a teacher, I’ll always be moving forward and not sitting stagnant.

Teaching in a digital world is a lot different to just teaching. Technically, we are required to be smarter and more advanced in the way we think and deliver information. It’s very important to know what learners your students will be as this will help you and them in the long run. They become aware of what they must do and as a teacher you have an idea of what they are able to achieve when taught the way they like to learn (Levy, 2018).

This assessment has also taught me that as a teacher, it is up to me to teach the new generation how important it is for them to to be safe and secure online. Employers are able to quickly type up your name on Google and view the type of person you are online – even though this may not be who you are in real – life.

The journey of this assessment has been up and down, but from now everything should be smooth sailing. I believe that due to this assessment I will probably blog more often that not.