September 22, 2022 – Poutama Class @ Poroutawhao School

We are learning to make smart decisions about what personal information we share online. We have learned that we musn’t share any personal information that would help people to find us in real life; examples of this sort of information are our address, our phone number, and our last name.

To demonstrate our understanding of these ideas we arranged images of different examples of information on a table; we have to decide whether the information was private or public. Then we had to explain what we were thinking when we made each decision.

This is an important topic to learn about because we are getting ready to start posting on our own personal blogs next term.

Here is an example of a finished Google Drawing of this work.

For the last two Cybersmart sessions we have been learning that we can find information about people from what is shared on their blog. We looked at two different personal blogs and searched for personal information about the people (dogs!) who wrote the blogs. By being clever detectives we learned about the difference between private and public information. We worked out that you can guess where to find someone from information shared in their pictures, as well as who their siblings might be from knowing their last name.

All this information is important for us to learn because we have started writing in our class blog. We need to be Cybersmart when we share information online.

Here is an example of the information we found out from looking at the dog blogs.