🎯 Learning Intention
I will explore how my online actions and data collection create my digital footprint — and how to make that footprint work for me.
✅ Success Criteria
I can explain the difference between active and passive data generation and give examples from my own online activity.
🌍 Why Are We Learning This?
Understanding how footprints are formed gives you control. Even data you don’t post yourself — like location tracking or shopping history — shapes how others see you.
🧠 Warm-Up – Tech Journal Prompt
💡 Think of the last 3 things you did online (today or yesterday). Which of them left a trace that you can see? Which might have left a trace you can’t see?
📚 Word(s) of the Day (Tech+ Domain 4.0 – Cybersecurity Awareness)
- Active Data
- Definition: Information you share intentionally (posts, uploads, comments).
- Sentence: “Posting a picture of my pet is active data because I chose to share it.”
- Passive Data
- Definition: Information collected about you without your direct action (location services, cookies, search history).
- Sentence: “My phone tracking my steps is passive data generation.”
📣 Formative Lecture & Guided Discussion (6–8 min)
- Quick review of Digital Footprint from last week — connect to active vs. passive generation.
- Show visual example: split screen of “What I post” vs. “What’s collected about me.”
- Class brainstorm: What’s the riskiest kind of passive data to leave unprotected?