Risk Check for New Tech

Learning Resource Type

Classroom Resource

Subject Area

Digital Literacy and Computer Science

Grade(s)

9, 10, 11, 12

Overview

New tech, like location services and smart devices, helps make our lives easier and opens opportunities that didn't exist before. But these innovations also come with a cost -- especially to our privacy. Help students consider the benefits and drawbacks of these new technologies -- and decide whether they're ultimately worth it.

Students will be able to:

Identify important benefits and privacy risks that new technologies present.
Decide whether or not the benefits of new technologies outweigh their privacy risks.
Create a compelling video that argues for or against using a new technology.

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Digital Literacy and Computer Science (2018) Grade(s): 09-12

DLCS18.HS.R1
Identify, demonstrate, and apply personal safe use of digital devices.

Knowledge

Students know:

how to safely use digital devices.
that failure to use digital devices safely can have an impact on access at school as well as the protection of personal data.

Skills

Students are able to:

identify personal safe use of digital devices.
demonstrate personal safe use of digital devices.
apply personal safe use of digital devices.

Understanding

Students understand that:

it is important to protect personal data when sharing information on the internet.

Digital Literacy and Computer Science (2018) Grade(s): 09-12

DLCS18.HS.11
Model and demonstrate behaviors that are safe, legal, and ethical while living, learning, and working in an interconnected digital world.

Vocabulary

ethics
digital world

a.

virus
malware
packet sniffing
spyware
phishing

b.

browser history

c.

personal data

d.

digital marketing
online wallets
personal information
data accessibility
passwords.

e.

cyberbullying
harassment
sexual communication

f.

online safety

Knowledge

Students know:

safe, legal, and ethical behaviors for online behavior.

a.

tracking methods are often used to improve digital tools and advertising.
hazards exist when unknown entities have access to a user's digital habits.

b.

methods to counteract the use of tracking.

c.

that often, end-user licensing agreements (EULA) are often written to protect the entity that created the digital tool, rather than the user of the digital tool.
that EULAs and terms of service agreements can grant access to the user's personal data.
that personal data can include images, posts, personal information (phone number, address, birth date, access to friends), and browsing data.

d.

often there exists an inverse relationship between online privacy/personal security and convenience.

e.

that inappropriate digital behavior can have physical, legal, and ethical consequences.

f.

that negative digital behaviors can have lasting consequences.
that some behaviors are illegal.
strategies to lessen the impact of negative digital behaviors and assess when to apply them.

Skills

Students are able to:

interact digitally while exercising safe, legal, and ethical behaviors.

a.

identify tracking methods used to gather data.
identify hazards that exist when tracking methods are used.

b.

list techniques to avoid tracking.
apply techniques to avoid tracking.

c.

interpret the terms of EULAs and terms of service agreements.
make an educated decision to agree to EULAs and terms of service agreements.

d.

weigh the risks of using a digital tool to one's personal security.
identify potential risks to using various digital tools.
evaluate a digital tool's security.

e.

identify inappropriate digital behaviors.
identify consequences of inappropriate digital behaviors.

f.

identify negative digital behaviors.
share strategies to to lessen the impact of negative digital behaviors.

Understanding

Students understand that:

because the Internet can be such a persisting environment, it is vital to interact with safe, legal, and ethical behaviors.

a.

entities use tracking methods to make products more appealing to their users.
hazards exists when tracking data can be tied to individual users.

b.

privacy can be violated when tracking is used.
techniques exist to mitigate the effects of tracking methods.

c.

nothing is free—you often give up data to use digital resources for no charge.
it is important to educate yourself on EULAs and terms of service agreements.

d.

free digital tools can compromise one's privacy and security.
it is important to be aware of what one is trading for use of a service.

e.

inappropriate digital behavior can have physical, legal, and ethical consequences.
consequences of inappropriate digital behaviors can have life-altering consequences.

f.

digital identity is tied to online digital behavior.
negative digital behaviors can have lasting consequences.
some digital activity is illegal.

Digital Literacy and Computer Science (2018) Grade(s): 09-12

DLCS18.HS.36
Explain the tradeoffs when selecting and implementing cybersecurity recommendations.

Vocabulary

cybersecurity
two-factor authentication (TFA)
geolocation
privacy
cryptography

Knowledge

Students know:

how to evaluate the tradeoffs of cybersecurity recommendations.
how to articulate the pros and cons of TFA.
the importance of password requirements.
how to articulate the pros and cons of geolocation.

Skills

Students are able to:

explain pros and cons of cybersecurity recommendations.
describe the use of two-factor authentication.
explain the importance of password requirements.
describe the use of geolocation.

Understanding

Students understand that:

security, privacy and convenience tradeoffs are factors in selecting and implementing cybersecurity recommendations.

CR Resource Type

Lesson/Unit Plan

Resource Provider

Other

License Type

CUSTOM

Resource Provider other

Common Sense Media

https://www.commonsense.org/education/digital-citizenship/lesson/risk-check-for…

Custom License Type (URL)

https://www.commonsense.org/about-us/our-mission/site-terms-use

Approved Date

2019-09-03

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