Presentation on Digital Ethics Panel -- don't hesitate to contact me if you would like to know more about the survey findings, which are not included on the slides (manuscript in progress on those findings)

1. Digital Ethics & Higher Education:
What are Future Teachers Learning?
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Vanessa P. Dennen
Florida State University
SXSWedu
March 5, 2013

2. • Your future employer was able to hear
everything you said in a class 3 years ago?
• Your ex tracked you down based on
information about a course assignment?
• A class discussion aPracted media aPention?
• Scholars in your field beliPled and ridiculed
you for your naïveté when you were just trying
to do your coursework?
• A student at another university found your
assignment and turned it in as her own?
What if …

3. Ñ To prepare future educators
Ñ To model responsible technology use
Ñ To encourage lifelong learning and the
development of personal learning networks
Ñ To identify and reward innovative and
transformative use of technology
My mission

4. Ñ Learners with:
Ó Diverse preferences and experiences
Ó Limited professional technology experience
Ñ Constrained, prescribed curriculum
Ñ Limited time
My reality

5. And what do these
students think /
do?
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Survey Findings

6. Ñ Privacy
Ñ Copyright
Ñ Digital footprints and legacies
Ñ Inappropriate oversharing
My concerns

7. Context: Student tweeting under real name
• Jane Doe: Fuck yeah! It’s my 19th birthday!!!
• Jane Doe: Check me out, bitches! I’m 19 today!
Worship me!
• Jane Doe: (twitpic with friends, beers in hand)
• Jane Doe: Head hurts. Fuckin awesome
birthday party.
The Case of the
Troublesome Tweets

8. Ñ Teach the instructors
Ñ Privacy controls
Ñ Pseudonyms
Ñ Multiple accounts
Ñ Search skills
Solution:
Educate & Empower

9. The power is in having
guidelines and providing
education, not in enforcing
rules
Closing thought:
Do more good than harm