DLT:
  • Understand and explain reasons that it is difficult to control who sees information published online.
  • Understand and justify guidelines for safely publishing information online.

Question of the Day: How can you make sure that your private information stays private?

Activity:
  • Code.org Lesson 4: Digital Footprint - In this lesson, students pause their own on developing web pages so they can develop an understanding of how personal information is surfaced on the internet, sometimes intentionally and sometimes unintentionally. Students look at several fictitious social media pages to see what they can learn about different people purely from publicly available information. They then reflect on what guidelines are appropriate for posting their own information online, especially as they prepare to create more personalized websites.
Digital Footprint - The collected information about an individual across multiple websites on the Internet.
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