Photos, Student Privacy, Media Literacy, and Digital Citizenship.
Media literacy, and digital citizenship are integral to our lives today. Schools actively promote media literacy and digital citizenship principles; however, educators often find it challenging to put these teachings into practice.
Therefore, it’s crucial to teach students how to make the right decisions and provide them with tools that encourage them to apply what they’ve learned. By doing so, we empower students to navigate the digital landscape responsibly.
Photos as building blocks.
Photos serve as the building blocks of our stories. Given the rapid advances in digital production software—from TikTok to ChatGPT—every photo now has the potential to become someone’s derivative work.
Moreover, when students share their photos on social media, they inadvertently volunteer their personal identity and right to privacy. As AI technology progresses, it can eventually match images to individuals.
To learn more, check out this article on AI in K-12 education.
Media literacy, student privacy and digital citizenship become crucial.
This reality does not mean we should forgo social media or stop using photos. In fact, visual content is essential for how we interact and communicate.
For additional resources, find information about photos for family conversations here.
Therefore, we need to follow best practices to protect data privacy and content ownership. By making users aware that their personal data is being shared, we ultimately empower them to give or withhold consent while fostering respect for each other’s rights.
Vidigami offers:
- A robust system that enables schools to manage up to five levels of consent.
- Each level features a color-coded system, allowing photos of students with “no public release” consent to be marked with an easy-to-use indicator for every tagged photo.
Furthermore, Vidigami helps model appropriate media use in schools in two significant ways:
- First, users can remove a photo from being shared by utilizing the “Report Media” option. The reason for flagging a photo can be something as simple as a student having a bad hair day and not wanting that image shared. Importantly, reported media remains visible only to the school’s Vidigami admins, who can see who reported the media and the reason for the report.
- Additionally, Vidigami prevents photos from being downloaded with metadata. Consequently, if the photos are shared publicly, no identifiable data will be attached.
Overall, Vidigami is a tool designed for and used by PK-12 schools. Its features make organizing and sharing photos easy while modeling best practices for media use both inside and outside the school.
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