Learning Resource Type

Classroom Resource

Who's Snooping on You Online?

Subject Area

Digital Literacy and Computer Science

Grade(s)

7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

Overview

With recent reports of high profile data breaches, ransomware attacks, and the prevalence of online trackers, it’s hard to know how best to protect your privacy online. In this Above the Noise video, we met up with the cybersecurity experts at Electronic Frontier Foundation to learn more about who’s snooping on us online and what we can do to protect ourselves. This video comes with a student handout that helps guide the discussion of this activity.

    Digital Literacy and Computer Science (2018) Grade(s): 7

    DLCS18.7.11

    Demonstrate positive, safe, legal, and ethical habits when creating and sharing digital content and identify the consequences of failing to act responsibly.

    Unpacked Content

    UP:DLCS18.7.11

    Knowledge

    Students know:
    • safe, legal, and ethical habits to use when creating and sharing digital content and that failing to do so can have negative consequences.

    Skills

    Students are able to:
    • use safe, legal, and ethical habits when creating and sharing digital content.
    • identify consequences of failing to use safe, legal, and ethical habits when creating and sharing digital content.

    Understanding

    Students understand that:
    • consequences exist for failing to use positive, safe, legal, and ethical habits when creating and sharing digital content.
    Digital Literacy and Computer Science (2018) Grade(s): 8

    DLCS18.8.11

    Advocate for positive, safe, legal, and ethical habits when creating and sharing digital content.

    Unpacked Content

    UP:DLCS18.8.11

    Knowledge

    Students know:
    • that works may be protected by rights which prevent use or reuse of content.

    Skills

    Students are able to:
    • identify rules of use or reuse of digital content.

    Understanding

    Students understand that:
    • creators of digital content may maintain rights to their creation(s) which may prohibit use of that content.
    Digital Literacy and Computer Science (2018) Grade(s): 09-12

    DLCS18.HS.17

    Discuss the ethical ramifications of malicious hacking and its impact on society.

    Unpacked Content

    UP:DLCS18.HS.17

    Vocabulary

    • white hat hacking
    • black hat hacking
    • information
    • ransomware

    Knowledge

    Students know:
    • that not all people use technology in a legal or ethical manner.
    • that software and processes are created to elicit personal data for negative purposes.
    • that the negative behaviors associated with technology have impacts on society.

    Skills

    Students are able to:
    • identify malicious hacking.
    • discuss ethical ramifications of malicious hacking.
    • discuss the impacts on society of malicious hacking.

    Understanding

    Students understand that:
    • that not all people use technology in a legal or ethical manner.
    • that software and processes are created to elicit personal data for negative purposes.
    • that the negative behaviors associated with technology have impacts on society.
    Digital Literacy and Computer Science (2018) Grade(s): 09-12

    DLCS18.HS.23

    Debate the positive and negative effects of computing innovations in personal, ethical, social, economic, and cultural spheres.

    Unpacked Content

    UP:DLCS18.HS.23

    Vocabulary

    • innovation
    • ethics
    • social
    • economic

    Knowledge

    Students know:
    • how to discuss positive and negative effects of computing innovations in multiple contexts.
    • that changes in computing innovations can have a range of effects in many contexts.
    • how to communicate their beliefs about computing innovations and the effects caused by advances.

    Skills

    Students are able to:
    • recognize that innovations can have both positive and negative consequences.
    • identify positive and negative effects of innovation.
    • communicate support for or against innovation.

    Understanding

    Students understand that:
    • advancements can also have drawbacks.
    • we are in a state of change that will require adaptation and education to be a constant.
    Link to Resource

    CR Resource Type

    Audio/Video

    Resource Provider

    PBS
    Accessibility

    Accessibility

    Video resources: includes closed captioning or subtitles
    License

    License Type

    CUSTOM
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