The Impact of a Digital Footprint: The Legacy of Online Behaviour | Primary

This webinar will provide headteachers, curriculum leads, subject leads and teaching staff with practical advice and guidance on supporting children to understand the potential impact and longevity of their conduct and decision making when online, and the digital traces it leaves behind.

The media is increasingly highlighting notable examples of figures in the public eye being required to address comments they made online years earlier. They are a powerful demonstration that once something is released onto the internet, it can resurface at any time – with serious consequences. Now that employers and higher education providers routinely evaluate a candidate’s ‘digital footprint’, errors of judgement online can have an enduring legacy for a young person’s prospects.

In this webinar Andrew Davis, a social media expert with 20+ years’ experience working with organisations to improve their digital footprint, examines the visibility and durability of a person’s online persona, the potential risks when posting anything online, and the various benefits of a young person maintaining an online identity that accentuates the best aspects of their real-world self.