{"id":2069,"date":"2015-10-20T14:47:30","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T21:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/?p=2069"},"modified":"2015-10-20T14:47:30","modified_gmt":"2015-10-20T21:47:30","slug":"fear-responsibility-identity-civil-society-and-the-internet-not-new-topics-i-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/archives\/2069","title":{"rendered":"Fear, responsibility, identity, civil society, and the Internet (not new topics, I know)"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/9\/8541\/8703334037_1afaf9f75d.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Credit: J. Albert Bowden II<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>So I was working on a (non education-related) project with a bright young woman today. It involved putting together a short video about her professional work. At the end, she asked me to talk her name off the title because she &#8220;tries to keep a low Internet profile.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wow, that threw me for a loop.<\/p>\n<p>Without revealing her identity, I can say that this woman is most likely in her late 20-early 30s, has several postgraduate degrees and a very impressive career.<\/p>\n<p>So my unprocessed thoughts, coming in a rapid flow, are something like this: What about building up a positive digital identity?&#8230;Well, the idea of keeping a low Internet profile is pretty much a thing of the past, no?&#8230;I can&#8217;t even imagine trying to keep a low Internet profile&#8230;. Did something happen to inspire this fear? (I suspect not.)&#8230;What does this situation say about how we provide guidance to younger folks, whether that is as teachers or parents or mentors?&#8230;And what does this imply for civil society and participation in general?<\/p>\n<p>I know the whole digital identity conversation has been had a million times, but somehow this situation brought it home to me in a new way.<\/p>\n<p>This also makes me think about how to counsel younger students who are publishing on the open web under our guidance. While some proceed with careful oversight, but a minimal amount of scare tactics or admonitions about the potential dangers, others seem to inspire so much fear as to lack credibility. I suspect there is a happy medium, but I don&#8217;t know where that is.<\/p>\n<p>This has serious implications for connected learning, as well as open pedagogy. And it may be just as important for older folks (e.g. teachers) as it is for kids.<\/p>\n<p>How do we impress the importance of privacy and safety without scaring people off from participating at all?<\/p>\n<p>And is this a &#8220;real&#8221; dilemma or just an imagined one?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I was working on a (non education-related) project with a bright young woman today. It involved putting together a short video about her professional work. 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