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Q3 Digital Deceptions: Introduction

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Introduction   

You are a core production member of your school’s Media Club. Your team manages the club’s email, social media feeds, and YouTube channel. To keep the club safe and maintain your student audience's trust, you must protect your accounts from scammers, craft honest yet engaging content, and fact-check viral claims before you air them.  

learning objectives

I can:

  • Spot red flags in suspicious emails, DMs, and sponsor messages to protect my accounts from phishing scams. 
  • Explain how clickbait and emotional traps are designed to manipulate my attention and force a click. 
  • Use fact-checking strategies to verify whether a video or audio clip is real, edited, or an AI deepfake. 
  • Evaluate digital offers and giveaways to tell the difference between legitimate opportunities and online scams. 

Social Engineering ~ What?

Watch the video below to learn about social engineering and deceptions that might trip you up online!

Note: This video is embedded on the Common Sense Media website. The image linked will take you to that website.

Social Engineering Schemes from Common Sense Media. This image is linked to the video on their page.

Direct link (2:54 min.)

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19.Q3 Teacher Guide
 

MITECS Michigan Integrated Technology Competencies for Students, and

ISTE Standards for Students

1. Empowered Learner
a. Connect their learning needs, strengths, and interests to their goals and use technology to help achieve them and reflect on their progress.
c. Use technology to seek feedback that informs and improves their practice and to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways.
 

2. Digital Citizen
a. Manage their digital identity and understand the lasting impact of their online behaviors on themselves and others, and make safe, legal, and ethical decisions in the digital world.
c. Safeguard their well-being by being intentional about what they do online and how much time they spend online.
d. Take action to protect their digital privacy on devices and manage their personal data and security while online.

5. Computational Thinker
b. Collect data or identify relevant data sets, use digital tools to analyze them and represent data in various ways to facilitate problem-solving and decision-making.

6. Creative Communicator
b. Create original works or responsibly repurpose or remix digital resources into new creations.



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