digital Footprint

Q1 Managing Your Footprint: AI & Your Footprint

5. Digital Footprint

When using digital resources, it is critical that everyone acts and models digital citizenship in ways that are responsible, safe, legal, and ethical and don't harm others.

This Quest challenges you to consider some of potential impacts with generated Artificial Intelligence (AI) your digital footprint. Consider the following points:

  1. AI systems can collect, analyze, and use the information from your footprint that comes from your social media posts, likes, comments, and searches you conduct online.
  2. AI algorithms can create deepfake images or videos using your photos.
  3. Fake social media posts can be generated that appear to be from you.
  4. An application to a job, college or university may not accepted based on some of the information generated from your digital footprint.

Consider and Discuss: 

Step 1. Play the video, "Is this Keanu account actually a deep fake? Is this legitimate?" and think about the two questions? 

Direct link  (4:17 min.)

Step 2. Check with your teacher about discussing as a class, small group, or with a partner:

  • How might your current online activities affect how others view you.
  • How the use of AI could impact your future employment or schooling.

Step 3. Share your three or more ideas and actions you can take to protect your digital footprint.

Step 4: When done, take this ProProf  7-Question Quiz for the video (use the password: footprint.

The information (data) that a machine is trained with can bring about: 

  • Bias and discrimination
  • Data privacy and security issues because the data is not always accurate or current
  • Misinformation and manipulation

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5.Q1 Student Checklist

5.Q1 Teacher Guide

MITECS Michigan Integrated Technology Competencies for Students, and

ISTE Standards for Students

1. Empowered Learner
a. Students connect their learning needs, strengths and interests to their goals and use technology to help achieve them and reflect on their progress./
c. Students use technology to seek feedback that informs and improves their practice and to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways.
d. Students understand fundamental concepts of how technology works, demonstrate the ability to choose and use current technologies effectively, and are adept at thoughtfully exploring emerging technologies.

2. Digital Citizen
a.Students manage their digital identity and understand the lasting impact of their online behaviors on themselves and others and make safe, legal and ethical decisions in the digital world.
b. Students demonstrate empathetic, inclusive interactions online and use technology to responsibly contribute to their communities.
c. Students safeguard their well-being by being intentional about what they do online and how much time they spend online.
d. Students take action to protect their digital privacy on devices and manage their personal data and security while online.

7. Global Collaborator
c. Students contribute constructively to project teams, assuming various roles and responsibilities to work effectively toward a common goal.


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