This An Irish man found himself in court after he posted a defamatory status update on his ex-girlfriend’s Facebook account.
Source: news.vice.com
The term "fraping" is probably a term we will come to hear a lot in the future. I wonder if this case sets a precedent or if it will be an outlier where we never hear of something like it again?
Here’s an updated version of our invaluable tips to make your Facebook account safer. We take you step-by-step through the settings and options to limit your post visibility and prevent unauthorise…
Source: nakedsecurity.sophos.com
I didn’t realise you could force a security code on login. For the rest of the ideas, I would argue that someone might not want to put something online that they don’t expect the whole world to see.
Lately, I have been working with elementary students through our Digital Citizenship curriculum. Of course, part of this curriculum is about online safety, bullying, and other worries through social media. In continuing my research around COPPA and CIPA laws I have started to wonder about the 13 year old age limit that has been determined to be the cut off for those who are and are not able to use social media sites like Instagram, Facebook, and the like. For example, Facebook states that no user may have an account or have an account made for them by an adult if they are under 13 years of age, as shown here.
Instagram also clearly states in their first term that users must be 13 years of age.
But there is no graduation to this level. There is no scaffolding or built-in support and I wonder why. For example, in Canada and other countries there is graduated licensing to drive a car. This means that a user, or the driver in this case, needs to learn along an experienced user who will guide them through the pitfalls of their learning journey.
I would argue that learning on social networks also needs this hand-holding. But I would also argue that starting to teach a child at the age of 13 is too late AND that having a child care for their account would necessitate ownership by the child of the account.
Therefore, I propose that a system needs to be built, with COPPA and CIPA adjusting their regulations in such a way that kids can sign up with a parent or guardian, that the adults receive updates about account activity, and that this feature eventually fades out over time. Possibly at the beginning of account activation there has to be a two-party login, where both parent and child have their own password. It sounds complicated, and probably is, but it seems short-sighted that the age 13 is a magic, non-arbitrary number that ensures that a child is safe and has healthy online habits that are ready for social situations.
What are your thoughts?
This is a “head’s up” to teachers [professors, bosses, supervisors, etc]. Writing and bringing cheat sheets, copying off neighbor’s tests, buying essays online, texting answers to one another and plagiarizing are ways students use to cheat. But now there is a new way to add a procrastination method to the list of cheating
…and it’s not Facebook.
Document Corrupter, by Neddy Winter, does just what it says. It corrupts documents. Neddy totes it like this:
We have all been in the situation where we have half-finished work due tomorrow. You can upload a unfinished word document and this tool will modify it so that it cannot be opened. You can send the corrupted file instead to buy yourself some extra time.http://neddyy.net/docs/
So if dealing with cheating and plagiarism wasn’t enough, now teachers need to lookout for this awful new method that students are employing.
As a teacher or educator we are thinking to ourselves, “Oh no! This is not good. Is there any way that I can combat this new way to cheat?” Initially, there is not a program or service that can tell you the file has been put through the document corrupter, but you can try some of these solutions:
To help fight against procrastination:
“a weekly calendar of all of your committed activities. It can help you accomplish your goal in two ways. First, in looking ahead to how much of your time is already committed, you will see the maximum amount of time you have left over to work toward your goal. Secondly, creating an unschedule helps you at the end of your week as you can look back and see where your time has actually gone” (Burka, Jane B, and Lenora M. Yuen. Procrastination. Reading: Addison-Wesley
Publishing Company, 1983.)
To fight plagiarism:
Good luck to you all. Don’t come back to me later saying, “What can I do now? Students are sending me corrupted files. I think they have figured out this method.”
Did you procrastinate yourself in getting them to set up a DropBox account? I don’t want to get a corrupted file hearing all about it. 🙂
Note: I almost recommend strategies like this. As a teacher, I like to allow ‘one post it note’ as a cheat-sheet for students. It means the students are perusing the information they should be studying, making decisions about what is the most important information, and then rewriting the information, which is a good way to study.
Mr. Jayzeer
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