Privacy Basics: Online Tracking | Privacy
These activities will help your learners understand how to take control of their privacy in a networked world. Learn web literacy skills like evaluate, navigate, open practice, and protect to safeguard your data and identity online.
Additional details
| Year band(s) | 5-6, 7-8 |
|---|---|
| Format | Web page |
| Core and overarching concepts | Privacy and security |
| Australian Curriculum Digital Technologies code(s) |
AC9TDI6P10
Explain the creation and permanence of their digital footprint and consider privacy when collecting user data
AC9TDI8P14
Investigate and manage the digital footprint existing systems and student solutions collect, and assess if the data is essential to their purpose |
| Technologies & Programming Languages | other programming languages |
| Keywords | Digital citizenship, Privacy, Cookies, Internet, Unplugged, Privacy Basics, Protect Your Data, Cyber security, Web literacy |
| Integrated, cross-curriculum, special needs | Digital Literacy |
| Organisation | Mozilla |
| Copyright | Mozilla Foundation. Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 |
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