Media Balance
True or False: In order to communicate with one another, we must use technology.
What is false?
Information about you that can be used to identify you because it is unique to you (e.g., your full name, phone number, or address)
What is private information?
Two examples of cyberbullying
All the information online about a person either posted by that person or others, intentionally or unintentionally
What is digital footprint?
A sense of urgency, spelling and grammar errors, and messages received from a "friend in trouble" are all clues that it may be
What is a scam/phishing?
All of the ways that large groups of people get and share information (TV, books, internet, newspapers, phones, etc.).
What is digital media?
When someone poses as a trusted institution, such as a bank or school, and sends you a personalized message asking you to provide private information
What is phishing?
To lessen the intensity or anger in a conflict
What is de-escalate?
True or False: Your digital footprint is all the information about you online that only you post.
What is false?
Apple offers this feature on its devices to help users limit the amount of time spent on apps and devices
What is "Screen Time"?
Using media in a way that feels healthy and in balance with other life activities (family, friends, school, hobbies, etc.)
What is media balance?
an attempt to trick someone, usually with the intention of stealing money or private information
What is internet scam?
You are watching a video a classmate posted online. Some of your classmates have left comments making fun of it. If you don't want to be a part of the negativity, you could …
What is leave a positive comment, ignore the post, tell a trusted adult?
True or False: Some parts of your digital footprint may be deleted over time.
What is false?
A crime in which your private information is stolen and used for criminal activity.
What is identity theft?
Ask these three questions when thinking about healthy media balance
What is what? when? and how much?
Apps, websites, or third parties collecting information about your online activity (other sites you visit, links you click, how long you stay, etc.)
What is online tracking?
A situation where there is no clear-cut way to respond, and where there is potential for someone's feelings to be hurt
What is thorny situation?
Texting friends, searching terms for social studies on Google, creating online game accounts are examples of what kind of digital footprint
What is in your control?
A fake Instagram account used for posting to a specific group of people or to post anonymously
What is a finsta?
The recommended amount of time that students spend on digital media in 6th grade
What is different for each student?
A web address that has been condensed and which could potentially mislead a user into going into a risky website
What is shortened URL?
The ability to imagine how someone else is feeling in a situation and take appropriate action
What is empathy?
True or False: You log onto Snapchat and find yourself tagged in stories that your friends have shared, you appear in some photos, however in the videos you do not appear. All parts of the Snapchat story are now part of your digital footprint.
What is true?
Small text files stored on a computer that keep track of what a person does on a website
What is cookies?