Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- safe, legal, and ethical behaviors for online behavior.
- tracking methods are often used to improve digital tools and advertising.
- hazards exist when unknown entities have access to a user's digital habits.
- methods to counteract the use of tracking.
- 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.
- often there exists an inverse relationship between online privacy/personal security and convenience.
- that inappropriate digital behavior can have physical, legal, and ethical consequences.
- 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.
- identify tracking methods used to gather data.
- identify hazards that exist when tracking methods are used.
- list techniques to avoid tracking.
- apply techniques to avoid tracking.
- interpret the terms of EULAs and terms of service agreements.
- make an educated decision to agree to EULAs and terms of service agreements.
- 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.
- identify inappropriate digital behaviors.
- identify consequences of inappropriate digital behaviors.
- 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.
- entities use tracking methods to make products more appealing to their users.
- hazards exists when tracking data can be tied to individual users.
- privacy can be violated when tracking is used.
- techniques exist to mitigate the effects of tracking methods.
- 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.
- 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.
- inappropriate digital behavior can have physical, legal, and ethical consequences.
- consequences of inappropriate digital behaviors can have life-altering consequences.
- digital identity is tied to online digital behavior.
- negative digital behaviors can have lasting consequences.
- some digital activity is illegal.
Vocabulary
- ethics
- digital world
- cookies
- virus
- malware
- packet sniffing
- spyware
- phishing
- browser history
- personal data
- data mining
- digital marketing
- online wallets
- personal information
- data accessibility
- passwords.
- cyberbullying
- harassment
- sexual communication
- online safety
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