Privacy Pursuit: What is Privateness?

Privacy Pursuit: What is Privateness?

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Grades: 2-3

Duration: 1 ½ to 2 hours

About the Author: Matthew Johnson, Director of Education, MediaSmarts

This lesson prepare was produced by MediaSmarts for the Information and Privateness Commissioner of Ontario, to be employed with the IPC’s Privacy Pursuit! activity booklet.

This lesson is part of USE, UNDERSTAND & ENGAGE: A Digital Media Literacy Framework for Canadian Schools.

Overview

In this lesson, pupils attract connections between their present ideas of privateness and how it applies to the online and networked gadgets, then learn critical vocabulary relating to privacy. They then take into consideration some situations in which children face privacy hazards and draw on those people to acquire a record of “dos” and “don’ts” for working with networked devices.

Learning Outcomes

Pupils will realize the pursuing essential ideas/big ideas:

Electronic media are networked

  • Equipment that are linked to the internet are all connected to each other
  • Devices that are related to the web deliver information and facts to each other

Electronic media have unanticipated audiences

  • Issues that you do with devices related to the net may possibly be witnessed by people you really don’t know about

Students will learn the subsequent critical domain knowledge:

Privateness:

  • Important vocabulary connected to online privacy
  • Quite a few gadgets connect to the internet
  • Your particular information is the things that can id who you are
  • Privacy pitfalls include frauds, embarrassment, hurting people’s emotions, cyberbullying and threats to home or personal safety
  • Taking proactive techniques to manage your privateness can limit privacy risks
  • Privateness settings can control who sees what you post
  • Passwords are an important resource to defend your privacy

Ethics and Empathy:

  • What you do on the internet can also have an effect on other people’s privateness, regardless of whether intentional or not

Learners will study how to:

  • Use: Begin to take a look at techniques to privacy risks
  • Comprehend: Identify the privacy threats of unique gadgets, applications and online activities
  • Interact: Make great alternatives about others’ privacy

Own Facts Protection Competencies:

Personal Data:

  • I comprehend what is concerned in the thought of personalized knowledge, described as any data—whether or not it was created public—about an identifiable individual
  • I can give examples of private information that can straight determine people (civil/relatives standing, photograph of a scholar in the course, and so on.) and technical knowledge that can check the things to do of a human being and establish them (cookies, geolocation facts, etc.)

Understanding the Digital Environment

  • I know what the web and its services are (social networks, mobile apps, the cloud, etc.)
  • I am watchful to only share the personal facts that is unquestionably needed to sign up for a service
  • I know that there are methods to defend myself online

This lesson and all linked paperwork (handouts, overheads, backgrounders) are obtainable in an quick-print, pdf kit version.

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