Digizen Game 2014
from http://www.digizen.org/resources/digizen-game.aspx:
This game follows on from the cyberbullying film Let’s Fight It Together to personalize and reinforce learning from that film. This game allows you to log on to a computer and create your own character that goes into the same school where cyberbullying has taken place.
You have the opportunity to experience a day at school with Joe, the main character, and make decisions about how to help him as he experiences cyberbullying. You are challenged to be a responsible digital citizen and find out more about keeping safe online.
After you are done playing the game, come back to this page and leave a comment about what you learned and/or reply and add to another classmate’s comment. May sure that your comment or reply focues on what it takes to be a responsible digital citizen and why being a responsible digital citizen is not always so easy.
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It takes a lot to be a digital citizen because you have to make the right decision and be responsible. You have to make the right decision because if you don’t you could have personal info or worst taken from you. You have to be responsible so you don’t put pictures up on the internet and or end up hurting someones feelings.
I thought that it took a lot to be a digital citizen because you really have to think about what choices you are making and if you are being responsible. To agree with ryann I think that sometimes when adds or messages are sent to you that are anon it can be a little questioning. Sometimes your personal information can be at risk. I also think that usually its so easy to press post or just to send or open something without realizing how other peoples feeling or information could be hurt. At first playing the game was a little bit confusing. I personally thought that we had to check the phone so i got a little bit confused.
I agree with Jaquie I think that you had to make alot of dictions and I think that the game showed you what was right and what was wrong. Like how talking behind peoples back is mean. The game let you have lost of opertuntitys.
I think that Olivia is right. You have to be careful about what you read on social media. You could take things very seriously and be doing a very good job handling things like this. Or you could be making bad decisions. You really have to use your common sense! There are lots of anon things sent to lots of people and depending on what it says you should know exactly what to do. And if you don’t feel free to talk to and adult I am sure they will be happy to help.
In the game you had to think of what choices your making. What your saying, if you say something wrong to the other person they could be easily mad at you. You wanted to be on Joes side and when you talked to Kim and her friends they were just talking about Joe behind his back. When you receive something anonymous about you, you want to know who said that. I know its easy to press the send button but by doing that your life can be at risk. I liked how this game quizzed you about what you knew about this safety, but it was a bit confusing.
It takes tons of work to become a good digital citizen because you have to do what is right for you, and what is right for other people. I think that being a good digital citizen is a good life skill.
I second that thought. Being a honest and true digizen is important. Everyday, technology becomes more and more part of our lives. Being a digital citizen is going to be almost the same as a regular citizen. Pirating, and other online crimes like that will be like being a robber in real life, maybe even more dangerous, because they’re harder to catch!
I agree. I think that being safe online is important since it’s so easy to be a wimp and let out your emotions online. And knowing what the results of not being a brave enough to tell someone something face to face is important, too.
I agree. This could happen to anyone and this show how to protect your self the outside world. And this shows how people could be very mean but think that it is a joke.
I actually don’t think that it is that hard to stand up for people. You just have to break apart the shell between you and your teacher.
It takes a lot of effort to be a digital citizen because you have to make a lot of decisions and you have to think from your own character’s point of view. I think that if you scored 100/100 as your final score, you are very good at making tough decisions and knowing what is right and not right. Being a digital citizen is a life skill and being a digital citizen will help you immensely later on in your life, tomorrow or the next day.
I played the game twice and each time, I wasn’t sure if I was making the right decision! I knew I should confront Kim about it and I did but with the tests, I realized how hard it is to be a good digital citizen. You might know you should ask your friend when you post a picture of them on the internet but when the time comes to actually do that, it might slip your mind.
Sometimes the best thing to do is just to not post pictures.
I played the game and found that my phone was very disrtacing and I todaly failed the quiz!
The digital phone on the game or your own phone? (it was really fun to shoot the answer.)
I think it is really important to be an ally especially online. Though this is not always easy. Even if it’s not face to face. It’s actually worse this way because they have time to think about what they’re going to do to you. If it’s face to face they have a quick reaction and it’s usually over. Most people would rather watch a friend get bullied rather than themselves. Joe was very depressed and some people would consider taking their lives at that point.
Playing the game helped me learn about what decisions need to be made to use tech responsibly. You have to be aware of all sides of the situation, and not say careless things about people. Even if you are having a private conversation with someone, don’t say anything you wouldn’t want others to see because you never know what will happen. It is also important to follow up if you think someone is being cyber bullied, don’t just ignore it. It could be you.
Playing the game taught me more about how to be safe online and how to help someone who is being bullied. Sometimes it got a little confusing because somethings are different in the U.K.
I agree with Elisabeth, this game really taught me how to be more cautious online and once you put something out you can never take it back. I also learned that nothing is private on the web.
I have learned that it is actually very hard to be a digital citizen. You always say you will do the right thing but when the chance actually comes along you are nervous of what people will think of you and if you will start being bullied. It is a lot easier to bully and be an ally online because the consequences are less extreme. Also it takes more courage to say mean things or stand up for somebody face to face.
I think playing the game opens up your eyes to some of the things you don’t really think about in the online world. It’s not an easy accomplishment and it’s actually pretty hard to become a good digital citizen. Some of the answers on the test I didn’t know because of the fact that it’s based in the U.K. Overall I somewhat enjoyed it and I thought it was a good experience.
This game really helped me think more about how I would handle situations like this. It also made me realize what it’s like to have to make decisions like this. Even though it was just a simulation, It really helped me empathize with people who are really in this situation.
I agree with Anna. You have to pay attention to the things around you and actually think to solve the problem. Even though the game was just a game it showed me that it is harder than it seems. It really helped me see what the situation was really like.
This game made me realize how much harder things are than you might think at first. You might want to help your friend but standing up to a bully is hard and most people don’t want to be bullied themselves. I played the game twice and both times I made mistakes. I just think that it might be easier playing this online than in real life because when you are playing a game, you know it’s just a game. If this was really happening, I might have made different decisions.
The digizen game was really fun and I learned a lot. During the test I didn’t understand some things because they were about the UK. Over all I understood what we were supposed to do. I think I could do better in real life because I don’t like bullying and I could do a lot more about it. The video and the game really showed how you can be bullied online and that is not fair.
This game was non life like and was very dark. They portrayed the characters somewhat grimly and made the game less enjoyable. The character ranking made you feel bad if you didn’t come out with a good ranking. The ranking did not have a good basis (non lifelike example) and has hard to see what it was based off of. This was not a good game in my opinion, it did not help with lifelike situations and bullying.
I agree that it did exagerate some things but I do think that it did get the message out very clear that being a digizen by making the right choices is a very hard thing to do.
I think there was one thing that really stood out as hard about playing the game. I think although you want to be a good person and stick up for others, in real life most would not want to be that bold. In real life, you don’t want to be the one person to stick up for the person being bullied, because once you do, you’re the next one who’s going to be targeted. I think although it was an online game, and wasn’t the most realistic simulator, I think it could actually teach someone a lot about online safety. It teaches a lot about the responsibility with technology, how you shouldn’t do things like taking a picture of your friends , and then posting it to a social network. Also, most of the things it mentions in the game were common things that people do all the time. I also think that some people just think about some things very casually, they just think, ‘I have a private account, so what’s the need of asking if I can post a photo of them. It’s not like the whole world can see it.’ When really, you may not even know some of the people who are following them. I think t’s very important to think about these things as rules, not just suggestions, because otherwise it can really hurt or embarrass them.
I agree. Like you said, you want to do the right thing. But in real life it is way different and harder to speak up against a bully.
I think that it takes a lot of work and effort to become a perfect citizen, and in reality you will never be perfect citizen because there is always room for improvement. A good tip for this game is to be aware of everything, and all of your surroundings. The person that is being picked on will never look at friends or whoever was involved the same way.
I don’t think it’s possible to be a perfect citizen. A human can’t be perfect. In the Digizin game you were doing so much bad stuff. You were texting during class. People were making fun of one guy.