Digital Footprint & Privacy
This two-word phrase describes the permanent trail of data, searches, and posts you leave behind whenever you use the internet.
What is a digital footprint?
This term refers to the illegal act of copying someone else’s online writing, images, or research and passing it off as your own schoolwork.
What is plagiarism?
This short term is slang for "charisma" and describes someone's smooth flirting skills or charm.
What is rizz?
This term refers to a fake email or text that tricks you into clicking a link to resolve an account "emergency," only to steal your login credentials.
What is a phishing scam?
This popular AI chatbot, developed by OpenAI, launched a global tech boom when it became widely available to the public in late 2022.
What is ChatGPT?
True or False: Once you delete a photo or post from your social account, it completely vanishes from the internet forever.
What is False? (Data can be screenshotted or saved on external servers).
To narrow down your results for a school project, you can wrap your search words in this specific punctuation mark to find that exact phrase.
What are quotation marks? (e.g., "civil war battles").
If someone says they are completely exhausted, doomed, or failed a major test, they will use this "culinary" word.
What is cooked?
An email claiming you randomly won a free iPad or a vacation to Hawaii is a major red flag for this specific type of cyber threat.
What is a malware/virus link? (Or clickbait scam).
This two-word term describes the math-based process where a computer reviews massive amounts of data to learn how to recognize patterns on its own.
What is machine learning?
This is the safer choice for a public gaming screen name: "Alex_Smith_2011" or "TheLibrarian".
What is TheLibrarian? (Because it does not include your real name, birth year, or location)
When using a website for a history report, you should check this specific page or section to ensure the author is a reliable expert and not just an anonymous blogger.
What is the "About Us" or author bio page?
This numeric point system is jokingly used by teens to keep track of how cool or uncool their everyday actions make them look.
What are aura points?
In an online auction or purchase fraud, you might receive a message saying you won a prize, but you are required to pay for this specific fee before they will ship it.
What is shipping and handling?
When using AI image generators like Midjourney, this is the name given to the specific text description or instructions you type in to create the picture.
What is a prompt?
When you use a school-issued Chromebook or log into your school Google account at home, your school administrators have the legal right to monitor this specific online activity.
What is your web browsing history? (Or searches / documents).
Educational websites that end in this specific three-letter domain extension are generally considered highly reliable sources for school research.
What is .edu? (Or .gov).
If a teen tells you to stop doing something cringe because you are "doing" this, it means you are trying way too much or acting desperately.
What is doing too much?
If an online retail site is missing a clear return policy, a customer customer phone number, or a physical street address, it is likely this kind of operation.
What is a scam website? (Or fraudulent retailer)
This term refers to highly realistic, AI-generated fake videos or audio clips that make it look or sound like a real person is saying something they never actually said.
What is a deepfake?
When you download a new mobile game or app, you should always check these settings to ensure the app isn't tracking your location or accessing your photo library without a good reason.
What are app permissions?
Using AI chatbots to generate a full essay or paying someone online to do your homework violates this multi-word school policy regarding honesty.
What is an Academic Integrity Policy? (Or Honor Code).
This rhyming slang term refers to consuming too much mindless internet content, leaving you feeling mentally drained.
What is brain rot?
If an online acquaintance you only know from a chatroom asks you to do this, via a reverse lookup tool they could easily trace your exact physical home address.
What is giving them your phone number?
Many schools now use specialized AI detector software (like Turnitin or GPTZero) to check if a student's essay or homework was secretly generated by this specific technology.
What is a Large Language Model? (Acceptable: Generative AI or an AI chatbot).