You can use Social Smarts: Nothing Personal! in your classroom to generate discussions about real-life situations to help young people learn to navigate online privacy risks. This graphic novel explores what happens when a girl is given her brother’s old phone and has to learn about some of the privacy concerns that can arise when using a mobile device. The graphic novel also covers topics such as data collection, targeted advertising, cybersecurity and online gaming.
Learning Goals / Big Ideas
Students will demonstrate the ability to:
- Explain why strategies like using pseudonyms online, clearing cookies, and using and protecting passwords can help mitigate risks to online privacy;
- Understand how data collected about them when they use Internet-connected devices can come back to haunt them;
- Explain why it can be very difficult to delete a picture or comment once it has been posted online;
- Make good choices about others’ privacy when using Internet-connected devices;
- Suggest strategies to better protect privacy and navigate privacy issues in the online world; and
- Learn to be aware of the potential privacy risks of new digital communications technologies, such as new social media apps and games.
Activity
Explain to students that every time they start using an Internet-connected device – like a smartphone or a tablet – they are…
