Digital Footprint meets Lego The document discusses a workshop on digital footprints using Lego Serious Play techniques. The workshop explores how people represent themselves online through various activities and digital traces they leave behind. It involves participants building Lego models to represent their digital footprint, including the positives and risks of online activities. They then build models showing how to get the most out of the internet while staying safe online. By sharing their models, participants discuss and develop advice for online safety based on the ideas represented in their Lego creations.

1. Digital Footprint meets Lego
Magda Bober
Information & Communications
Manchester Metropolitan University
Image:
http://dolours.edublogs.org/2014/09/09/digital-
footprint

2. My research
• Use of digital media for entertainment and
education, especially by young people
• What do we do when we are online?
• How do we interact with digital devices?
• What are the benefits, what are the risks?
• How do we represent ourselves online? What
do we share with others online?
• What is our digital footprint?
• How to stay safe online?

3. What is a digital footprint?
Simply put, it is everything on
the internet about you
including:
• Social media profiles
• Images/photos of you
• Any information or content
posted by you online
• Your search history
• Data on many other
activities that you do online
that you leave behind
 Hard to delete
Source:
www.slideshare.net/bns_library/keeping-kids-

4. How we will explore this topic:
Lego Serious Play (LSP)

5. Ok to take pictures of you building
LEGO models and tweet?
#esrcfestival
Photographs

6. Build a tower
Warm-up: Task 1 (1 min)

7. Take your tower apart
Warm-up

8. Build an animal using up to 8 bricks
Warm-up: Task 2 (3 mins)

9. Add something to this animal that
says something about how you feel
about being at MMU today.
Share your model with your group.
Warm-up: Task 3 (2 mins)

10. Now that you’ve done the warm
up, we can move on to the main
building tasks…

11. Task 4 (5 mins):
Build a model that captures the
things you do when you are online
(your ‘digital footprint’).
What are the positives, what are
the risks?

12. Write some brief
comments about your
model on a post-it note.
Share your models with
your group.
Ask questions, comment
on each others’ models.

13. Task 5 (5 mins):
Now build a model that captures
how to get the best out of the
internet and stay safe online.
Share your model with your group.

14. Place your models
around the sheet of
paper. As a group,
write a list with advice
for staying safe online
on the sheet, based on
your models.

15. Thank you