Week 2: Privacy and Safety

I am beginning to become more familiar with the blog and how it works. Learning about privacy and safety is very important to me. Confidentiality is something that should be stressed but in the context of information being stored online often times errors may occur due to ignorance.

This weeks lesson regarding cyber security and privacy was very interesting. I have seen in Link 2 Practice a lot of the teachers use Google Classroom. However I know that students accounts are not activated until a permission slip has been sent home and signed. Learning about FIPPA was very enlightening. Also interesting to think of data storage existing within a country. I rarely think of the data and storage online as existing within a country or province. I also wonder about schools or government sharing information with the outside sources. For example in one of our talks in another class a teacher was talking about how the Foundations Skills Assessments (FSA) results in the past have been shared with the real estate markets and have influenced housing prices. I wonder about the ethics of distributing that information.

Anther interesting resource was this link: Information about Security Awareness

This lesson also made me think about how important it is to educate students on cyber security and help give them the tools to protect their online identity and image.