Protecting Your Privacy
Tell students that using an app or other online service doesn’t have to be an all-or-nothing decision: there are ways of limiting how much of your information is collected and how it is used.
Have students access the chapter Protecting Your Privacy on Apps and Website and go through it with the class.
Then ask:
- Do you already do any of these things?
- Are there any things here that you want to start doing?
- Are there things here that you want to talk to your parents about doing?
Ask them to think back to the privacy audit they did earlier, in particular things about the app’s privacy policy that made them uncomfortable.
Now have students access the student chapter Privacy PSA and tell them they will be creating digital stories that will serve as a public service ads that will communicate both the most worrying privacy risks in using that platform and the ways in which the privacy tools and techniques they have just learned about can protect against them.
Students can do this activity individually, in pairs, or in small groups, as you prefer. If you have not already delivered the Remixing Media unit, have them access the student chapters Copyright Basics and Remix Tools: Getting Media for information on how to obtain screen captures and other media for their digital stories.
If you have already delivered the Digital Storytelling unit, you can have students use the Digital Story Maker to create their stories. If you have not, you can deliver just the Digital Story Maker activity since these will not follow the usual Digital Story format. If you would prefer not to have students make digital stories, you can have them make print PSAs instead.
Assess students’ PSAs using the Assessment Rubric.
ads that perform a public service rather than sell a product