Q3 Digital Deceptions: Shield The Inbox
Emails & DMs
Your Media Club’s email inbox and social media DMs are blowing up! Since your club is gaining popularity around school, businesses and random users are reaching out. Some want to sponsor your videos, some claim you broke copyright rules, and others offer free gear. But beware: scammers love targeting student creators. One wrong click could have lasting effects on the Media Club!
Identify & Predict
Two of the messages posted to your clubs inbox are posted on this page—but one may not be what it seems!
- Work with a crew member to compare Messages A and B.
- Identify three important differences.
- Predict which message is trying to trick you.
Message A
Message B
Competencies & Standards
MITECS Michigan Integrated Technology Competencies for Students, and
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.
Websites and Documents
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