Q4 Online Safety in Action: Introduction
Power Up Your Protection
Now that you’ve spotted all the online dangers, it’s time to gear up and become a true Cyber Hero! Your mission: build an epic digital defense system. You’ll learn how to protect your personal information by controlling your digital footprint, decoding those sneaky website cookies, and smart privacy setting controls. You’ll also become a password master (no more “1234”), and find out why updating your apps and games is like putting on armor against hackers based on the latest security patch. Finally, you’ll take everything you’ve learned to design a safety plan that will keep the players in your game safe and sound.
Learning Objectives
I can:
- Explain how my digital footprint and website cookies affect my online privacy.
- Create a strong password based on current password recommendations and test its password strength.
- Identify personal information that is unsafe to share online by analyzing a digital footprint.
- Use browser privacy settings to control what information I share.
- Explain the importance of security updates, encryption (HTTPS), and safe downloads.
- Differentiate between essential and tracking cookies.
Discussion questions to think about as you play the video below:
- What can happen if you don’t protect your computer?
Why haven’t people developed a perfectly safe Internet?
*Note: You may stop playing the video at 3:01 min.
Direct link (3:01 min.)
Competencies & Standards
MITECS Michigan Integrated Technology Competencies for Students, and
2. Digital Citizen
a. Cultivate and manage their digital identity and reputation, and are aware of the permanence of their actions in the digital world.
b. Engage in positive, safe, legal, and ethical behavior when using technology, including social interactions online or when using networked devices.
c. Demonstrate an understanding of and respect for the rights and obligations of using and sharing intellectual property.
d. Manage their data to maintain digital privacy and security, and are aware of data-collection technology used to track their navigation online.