Grades: 2-3

Length: 1 ½ to 2 hours

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

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

This lesson is part of USE, UNDERSTAND & ENGAGE: A Electronic Media Literacy Framework for Canadian Educational facilities.

Overview

In this lesson, students attract connections amongst their present ideas of privateness and how it applies to the internet and networked units, then learn important vocabulary relating to privacy. They then look at some eventualities in which youngsters face privateness hazards and draw on people to acquire a list of “dos” and “don’ts” for applying networked devices.

Learning Outcomes

College students will recognize the subsequent vital concepts/big ideas:

Electronic media are networked

• Devices that are related to the world-wide-web are all linked to each other
• Devices that are related to the world-wide-web mail information and facts to each other

Electronic media have unanticipated audiences

• Items that you do with equipment linked to the internet might be found by men and women you really don’t know about

College students will discover the pursuing crucial domain knowledge:

Privateness:

• Critical vocabulary relevant to online privacy
• Several equipment connect to the internet
• Your particular facts is the factors that can identification who you are
• Privacy risks contain cons, shame, hurting people’s inner thoughts, cyberbullying and threats to house or personal safety
• Getting proactive ways to control your privateness can limit privacy risks
• Privacy settings can regulate who sees what you post
• Passwords are an critical instrument to shield your privacy

Ethics and Empathy:

• What you do on the net can also affect other people’s privacy, irrespective of whether intentional or not

Students will discover how to:

• Use: Get started to take a look at techniques to privacy risks
• Realize: Recognize the privateness hazards of diverse products, apps and online activities
• Have interaction: Make very good alternatives about others’ privacy

Personal Info Protection Competencies:

Personal Data:

• I have an understanding of what is concerned in the notion of individual information, outlined as any data—whether or not it was built public—about an identifiable individual
• I can give illustrations of individual facts that can straight detect persons (civil/relatives standing, photograph of a college student in the course, and many others.) and technical knowledge that can watch the functions of a individual and recognize them (cookies, geolocation information, etc.)

Knowledge the Digital Environment

• I know what the net and its providers are (social networks, cell applications, the cloud, etc.)
• I am careful to only share the individual facts that is absolutely required to sign up for a service
• I know that there are methods to shield myself online

This lesson and all associated files (handouts, overheads, backgrounders) are accessible in an quick-print, pdf kit version.