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Lesson: Playing With Privacy

In this lesson, students learn how they may be paying for “free” apps and games with their personal information. After playing a game designed to teach privacy concepts, students analyze the game and then design one of their own.

Grade range: 7-8

Teacher Material: https://pressbooks.pub/mediasmarts/chapter/personal-information-avatar/

Student Material: https://pressbooks.pub/mediasmarts/chapter/personal-information-avatar-2/

Time Frame

One class period (75 minutes) Two or three class periods (150-225 minutes) Extended Unit
Activities  

Personal Information Avatar

Data Defenders

Powering Up Privacy

 

 

 

Personal Information Avatar

Data Defenders

Powering Up Privacy

Paying with Privacy

 

 

 

Personal Information Avatar

Data Defenders

Powering Up Privacy

Paying with Privacy

Analyzing Data Defenders

Creating a Privacy Game

 

Preparation:

  • Make sure that students are able to access the links and the interactive activities.

 

A printable version of this lesson is available here.

 

Learning Outcomes

Big ideas/key concepts: Students will understand that…

Media have commercial considerations:

  • Many apps and games that seem “free” collect and sell your personal information

Digital media experiences are shaped by the tools we use

  • The design of different platforms influence how we give up personal information

Key questions:

  • Why do apps and games collect information about us?
  • How can we control what information about us is collected?

Essential knowledge: Students will know…

  • Privacy and security: How apps collect data, privacy management tools
  • Consumer awareness: How “free” apps make money

Performance tasks: Students will be able to…

  • Access: Find information on privacy tools
  • Use: Make an educaitonal game
  • Understand: Analyze privacy implications of “free” apps; analyze a game design
  • Engage: Make conscious choices about trading personal information for online services

Curriculum  Connections

Strand A: Literacy Connections and Applications

A2. Digital Media Literacy

A2.1 Digital Citizenship

evaluate and explain their rights and responsibilities when interacting online with appropriate permission, and make decisions that contribute positively to the development of their digital identity and those of their communities

A2.2 Online Safety, Well-Being, and Etiquette

demonstrate an understanding of how to navigate online environments safely, manage their privacy and personal data, and interact in a way that supports their well-being and that of others, including seeking appropriate permission

A3. Applications, Connections and Contributions

A3.1 Cross-Curricular and Integrated Learning

analyze and explain how the knowledge and skills developed in this course support learning in various subject areas and in everyday life, and describe how they enhance understanding and communication

C1: Knowledge about Texts

C1.1 Using Foundational Knowledge and Skills to Comprehend Texts

read and comprehend various complex texts, using knowledge of words, grammar, cohesive ties, sentence structures, and background knowledge

C1.2 Text Forms and Genres

Grade 7: analyze and compare the characteristics of various text forms and genres, including cultural text forms, and provide evidence to explain how they help communicate meaning

Grade 8: analyze and compare the characteristics of various text forms and genres, including cultural text forms, and provide evidence to explain how they help communicate meaning

C1.4 Visual Elements of Texts

Grade 7: analyze how images, graphics, and visual design create, communicate, and contribute to meaning in a variety of texts

Grade 8: evaluate how images, graphics, and visual design create, communicate, and contribute to meaning in a variety of texts

Grade 8: summarize and synthesize the important ideas and supporting details in complex texts, and draw effective conclusions

C3 Critical Thinking in Literacy

C3.3 Analyzing Texts

analyze complex texts, including literary and informational texts, by evaluating, synthesizing, and sequencing relevant information and formulating conclusions

Strand D:Composition (Expressing Ideas and Creating Texts)

D1 Developing Ideas and Organizing Content

D1.1 Purpose and Audience

Grade 7: identify the topic, purpose, and audience for various texts they plan to create, and analyze why the chosen text form, genre, and medium suit the purpose and audience, and how they will help communicate the intended meaning

Grade 8: identify the topic, purpose, and audience for various texts they plan to create; choose a text form, genre, and medium to suit the purpose and audience, and justify their choices

D1.2 Developing Ideas

generate and develop ideas and details about challenging topics, such as topics related to diversity, equity, and inclusion and to other subject areas, using a variety of strategies, and drawing on various resources, including their own lived experiences

D1.3 Research

D1.4 Organizing Content

classify and sequence ideas and collected information, selecting effective strategies and tools, and identify and organize relevant content, evaluating the choices of text form, genre, and medium, and considering alternatives

D2 Creating Texts

D2.1 Producing Drafts

Grade 7: draft complex texts of various forms and genres, including narrative, expository, and informational texts, using a variety of media, tools, and strategies

Grade 8: draft complex texts of various forms and genres, including narrative, persuasive, expository, and informational texts, citing sources, and use a variety of appropriate media, tools, and strategies to transform information and communicate ideas

 

 

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