2+Digital+citizenship+scenarios

Cindy has been talking online to a girl named Julie for a few days now. Julie has told Cindy where she lives, how old she is, where she goes to school, and what she looks like. Julie asks Cindy what school she goes to. Is it okay for Cindy to tell her?

Michael is online talking to his friend from school, Chris. They are working on their homework together and studying for a test. Chris says they should meet before class to review for the test. Is this okay?

Jennifer is talking to a friend online when she gets a message saying there is trouble with her computer and she needs to type in her online password again. Should she do it?

Jake is talking to a friend online who he met on the Internet. The friend offers to help him finish his homework and asks for Jake’s phone number. Is it okay for Jake to give it to him, since it has to do with homework?

Allison met Linda on the Internet and has been talking to Linda online for several months. Linda says she is the same age as Allison and lives nearby. Linda wants to meet Allison in the mall to go shopping. Should Allison go meet her?

Jeff got an e-mail from someone he doesn’t know, with a file attached. Should he open it?

Tina gets an online message from a woman who says her name is Mrs. Anderson and tells Tina that she is a math teacher. Mrs. Anderson wants to know what school Tina goes to and what her teacher’s name is. Should Tina tell her?

Paul is online when he gets a message saying he won a free Xbox! He just needs to send in his address and phone number so it can be mailed to him. Should he give the information?

Jo found out Rich’s password and thought he would play a trick on him by downloading a game while logged in as him on the school network which is against the rules. Should he do it? What could happen if he does?

Emily had a paper due in history class and just started to do research for it the day before. She found a web site that has a lot of term papers already written and she found a paper on the topic she was doing. What should she do?

At school, Ben saw a girl in his class enter her password for her Gmail account, and now he can log in and read all her e-mails! He can send e-mail from her account, too, and people will think the messages he sends are from her. What could happen here?

I got a copy of a really funny computer 'joke' from my friend. It asks, “Do You Want Internet Access for FREE?” When you click on 'yes,' it changes some files on your computer so that each time you log on, your computer says “Way to go, stupid!” I think I’ll send it to my friends as a joke! What problems could this cause?

Lauren got an email from her friend Monique and is really irritated about it. Monique accused her of something she didn’t do and won’t believe Lauren when she says she didn’t. So Lauren e-mails her back, lashing out at Monique and telling her what a horrible person she is and how stupid she can be.

When sitting with Dan in a restaurant, Pete gets a cell phone call and starts to talk really, really loudly into his phone. Dan is kind of embarrassed, since Pete is talking to his girlfriend and they’re obviously having some stupid argument about another girl he was talking to. It goes on for about 5 minutes and Dan starts to get annoyed just sitting there.

You’re browsing around on the Internet and a pop-up ad suddenly appears in front of your screen, saying..... “You’ve won $100! Click here to claim your prize!” and had a picture of a $100 bill waving around. You click on it and then put in your email address in the spot it tell you to, but then nothing happens.

Dave texts his friend Kayla that he just logged on to a peer-to-peer file sharing web site and downloaded a new song they just talked about yesterday. He asks her if she wants him to download any others, and she names five more. That way she figures, she doesn’t have to pay to download each one off iTunes.

While sitting at lunch, Lisa overhears someone in her class talking at the next table one about their homework, and suddenly remembers there’s a writing assignment due next hour! She goes to the school’s library and looks the topic up on the web, then copies and pastes information into Microsoft Word. She doesn’t bother to put in any of her own thoughts and doesn’t copy the URL to give credit to the site or the author. She turns it in for credit, but is kind of afraid the teacher will be able to tell it wasn’t her style of writing.

My friend Joey and I wanted to buy this really cool computer game, but it costs a lot of money. Joey found a web site where you could get this game FOR FREE just by trading a copy of any other game that you had! So he goes online and offers one of his games to trade. He downloads the other guy’s game and installs it. But now, his computer is running unbelievably slow and his mom and dad are furious because they can’t really use it to do their work anymore. All just because we installed a game!

Matt’s career goal is to be a successful photographer. He loves taking pictures and is actually very good at it. He sets up some unusual shots for a unique look and posts them to his web site. A couple of months later, he’s surfing the web and sees some of his photos on someone else’s web site. At first he is flattered that someone likes his work, but after looking more closely, he sees that his name isn’t given anywhere on the site, and the way the images are posted makes it seem as if the site owner himself had taken the pictures!

Jacob and I used to be best friends and would play video games after school. Sometimes we’d play games online too, and he must have seen my type in my password. So he probably guessed it was my password at school too, because when he forgot what our assignment was for the endangered species PowerPoint, he went into my account to look at my PowerPoint. A couple days later, we got called to stay after class and were accused of cheating by the teacher. We both got zeroes on the assignment and had our parents called, plus got lunch detention.

During computer class, Mr. McIntosh notices Sarah typing on Facebook. As he comes closer to her computer, she minimised the window, since she knows she’s not allowed to go on Facebook at school. He asks Sarah to close out of the Internet and see him after class. When he asks her what she was doing, she says she was already done with her work and was bored.

While Alex is standing in line at the movies waiting to get in, he hears a loud cell phone start ringing. The ring tone happens to be this stupid song he can’t stand, and for some reason, the person isn’t answering it, so it keeps on playing that dumb song!

Angie loves Facebook and often spends two to three hours each day on it. She has a large list of “friends” that includes friends and friends-of-friends-of-friends. Angie’s mom figures she has about 10 friends that she uses Facebook with, but she actually has 149, and only 20 are personal friends that she sees.

Rob works several hours a week at a pet store. He likes working with animals and wants to be a veterinarian. But at the pet store, he doesn’t like his boss or his co-workers, and thinks he’s only given boring jobs to do. So in Facebook, he complains about how he hates the job, his boss, and his co-workers.