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Who's Snooping on You Online?

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Title:

 Who's Snooping on You Online?

URL:

 https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/online-privacy-tips-kqed/whos-snooping-on-you-online-above-the-noise/

Content Source:

 PBS
Type: Audio/Video

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.

Content Standard(s):
Digital Literacy and Computer Science
DLIT (2018)
Grade: 7
11) Demonstrate positive, safe, legal, and ethical habits when creating and sharing digital content and identify the consequences of failing to act responsibly.

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Evidence Of Student Attainment:
Students will:
  • demonstrate positive, safe, legal, and ethical habits when creating and sharing digital content.
  • identify the consequences of failing to act responsibly.
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
DLIT (2018)
Grade: 8
11) Advocate for positive, safe, legal, and ethical habits when creating and sharing digital content.

Example: Students create a brochure that highlights the consequences of illegally downloading media.

Unpacked Content
Evidence Of Student Attainment:
Students will:
  • advocate for positive, safe, legal, and ethical habits when creating and sharing digital content.
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
DLIT (2018)
Grade: 9-12
17) Discuss the ethical ramifications of malicious hacking and its impact on society.

Examples: Dissemination of privileged information, ransomware.

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Evidence Of Student Attainment:
Students will:
  • discuss malicious hacking.
  • discuss ethical ramifications of malicious hacking.
  • discuss the impacts on society of malicious hacking.
Teacher 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
DLIT (2018)
Grade: 9-12
23) Debate the positive and negative effects of computing innovations in personal, ethical, social, economic, and cultural spheres.

Examples: Artificial Intelligence/machine learning, mobile applications, automation of traditional occupational skills.

Unpacked Content
Evidence Of Student Attainment:
Students will:
  • debate the positive and negative effects of computing innovations in personal spheres.
  • debate the positive and negative effects of computing innovations in ethical spheres.
  • debate the positive and negative effects of computing innovations in social spheres.
  • debate the positive and negative effects of computing innovations in economic spheres.
  • debate the positive and negative effects of computing innovations in cultural spheres.
Teacher 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.
Tags: cyber security, digital tools, ethical, hacking, internet, online, safety
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AccessibilityVideo resources: includes closed captioning or subtitles
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