🎯 Learning Intention
I will learn how passive data is collected online and practice adjusting privacy settings to reduce unwanted tracking.
✅ Success Criteria
I can explain what cookies and trackers do, and identify at least one privacy setting I can adjust to limit data collection.
🌍 Why Are We Learning This?
Companies, advertisers, and even strangers collect data about you — often without you realizing it. Knowing how to control your privacy settings gives you more say in what information you share.
🧠 Warm-Up – Tech Journal Prompt
💡 Think about an app or website you use every day. What do you think it “knows” about you? How might it know that?
📚 Word(s) of the Day (Tech+ Domain 4.0 – Cybersecurity Awareness)
- Cookies
- Definition: Small files stored on your device that track activity and preferences.
- Sentence: “When I shop online, cookies remember what items I looked at.”
- Tracker
- Definition: A tool that collects and shares data about your online behavior, sometimes across different sites.
- Sentence: “A tracker followed my browsing from one site to another to show me targeted ads.”
📣 Formative Lecture & Guided Discussion (6–8 min)
- Recap: Passive data from yesterday → cookies & trackers are major sources.
- Explain why cookies exist (convenience) vs. how they can be misused (profiling).
- Demonstrate with a safe example: visit a news site → show cookie notice → point out “manage settings” option.