Jan 30 2026 Digital Citizenship & Online Presence

Silent Read 20 min - if you do not have a selected novel as of yet - please head to the library to select - last class time to do so.  

ReviewShort Video Viewing

Information: Once it's out there....

Once you put your personal information out there, it can be very hard to remove. Watch as the video shows that it’s almost impossible to take back anything that you put online – much like getting the toothpaste back into the tube.

NOTES: Binder: Digital Literacy Unit

Digital Info:

1. Is permanent;
2. Can be copied;
3. Can be seen by unintended, and potentially much larger audiences;
4. Is searchable. - Refer name "sample" google. - Class test on teacher computer. What do you see? 

Small Group Work: x 3 - Paper - markers

Paper located behind Teacher desk and markers, located in the little side table with the plant on it. Bottom shelf.

Draw a person - drawing - name some of the things you, your friends or their older siblings do online - bubbles or arrows to outside.

Name one piece of information that you give away with each of those activities. 

Reminder - "personal information" broadly as "anything about yourself that you post online or that can be tracked by the sites or services you use." 

Back to the video - Class discussion - what do you think the message of the video is? What does toothpaste have to do with information? Why might the person be trying to get the toothpaste back into the tube, and what does it mean that s/he can't?

Information is permanent (key principle #1): just like toothpaste that can't be put back into a toothpaste tube, once information is online it can't be deleted or removed.

Class discussion - is it really not possible to "put the toothpaste back into the tube?" 

How To Deal With Info Online You Would Like To Try To Keep Private (as best as you can)  

Review the below information as a class discussion. 

• You can delete the information you disclose (such as photos you post) but you can't stop other people from sharing them or making copies. Once information is online, it's not easy to control how it's collected by the sites and services you use or by other users
• You can ask people to delete their copies, but the social network or photo-sharing site may keep its own copies, and other users can use any copies they made however they want.
• You can close your whole account, but they may keep copies for a while after that (in case you change your mind) or may even keep copies of what you've posted forever -- you have to read the Terms of Service to find out what happens when you close your account.

It can be even harder to get information that was collected about you "back in the tube," in part because you may not even know it's being collected.

Important Terms:

Privacy Policies the operator uses the information that you provide to them, whether directly (by sharing photos or other content) or indirectly (through anything you do which can be tracked and used to build a profile of you.) 

Privacy policies also lay out what information they share with third parties (like advertisers), what choices you can make about limiting what information is collected or shared, what happens to your information if you close your account, and what you can do if you think the policy has been violated.

Terms of Use (also called Terms of Service) are a more general explanation of the conditions under which you use a website, app or service. These include what kind of behaviour is acceptable and unacceptable, who owns the content you create or share, how you can close your account, what you can do if you think the policy has been violated, and many other rules.