Blogging with Brenda

When I was 11, my older cousins became my sitters. Whenever my mom had to work overtime, or late into the night, I would stay over at their house and the time was spent online. One of my favorite things to do would be to watch them go online, log into Myspace, and spend hours creating their profile pages, selecting their top friends, and playing games the site offered. Soon enough, they offered to make me my own account. I was obviously not 13 at the time, but we just changed my birth year from 1997 to 1990. Simple. Pretty much everyone in my 5th-grade class was doing the same by the time this happened. I was just the one that joined late. Danah Boyd stated, "on the internet, every child is 14." I honestly think every child on the internet is at least 18, if not older. CIPA (Children's Internet Protection Act) is meant to "protect students from online predation, cyberbullying, and inappropriate content." Filters are applied and vary depending on the student'...

I wasn't shocked when I found out I have 168 reused passwords upon looking at my Google account's password checkup. I simply do not have the capacity to remember different passwords, and sure Google can save my passwords, but really, I can't even trust Google anymore as seen with my last blog post . So, I just silently resign and reuse my passwords to make my life easier. However, I was shocked to find out only one of my accounts was compromised while checking if I have been pwned and it was an account I barely use. My Canva account was found in the May 2019 breach, but I'm surprised that I've only been involved in one breach considering how little I have paid attention to online security. If I haven't paid much attention to my online security, I can only imagine how much my own students pay attention to theirs. Image Source: Twitter, @Maechez1 J Sterling Morton District 201, has policies when it comes to the acceptable use of technology. There are two sections...