Making Good Decisions Online
Content (text, audio, images, video) or devices that allow people to share information, communicate, and collaborate over internet or computer networks.
What is Digital Media?
Doing something without anyone knowing who you are
What is anonymously?
A person’s condition with regard to their psychological and emotional well-being.
What is mental health?
A piece of code that websites put on your computer. It remembers you and tracks things like your clicks, search history, shopping cart, time spent on the site, and even your email address sometimes.
?What are cookies
Able to be believed; trustworthy
What is credible?
Using media in a way that feels healthy and in balance with other life activities (family, friends, school, hobbies, etc.)
What is Media Balance?
A fake Instagram account used for posting to a specific group of people or to post anonymously
What is a Finsta?
Any site or app that allows you to share and communicate with others.
What is social media?
Facts and statistics collected together to be used for different purposes.
What is data?
To carefully examine something to figure out its value, worth, or understanding.
What is evaluate?
Behaviors we do often or regularly with digital media and devices.
What are Digital Habits?
To select, organize, and look after a collection (e.g., content posted to a social media profile).
What is to curate?
This acts on areas of the brain to give you feelings of pleasure, satisfaction and motivation. It also has a role to play in controlling memory, mood, sleep, learning, concentration, movement and other body functions.
What is dopamine?
A person who buys products or services to use
What is a consumer?
Preference in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another.
What is bias?
It fools the brain into thinking it's daytime. When that happens, the body stops releasing a sleep hormone called melatonin. (Melatonin is nature's way of helping us wind down and prepare for bed.)
What is Blue Light?
When you interact with like-minded people online, you belong to an ______________________-.
What is an online community?
Teens feel a lot of pressure to “keep up” with everything. There’s pressure to say and do the right things, post and share daily, keep up with the jokes and memes, getting likes and views. This pressure brings a feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease, typically about something with an uncertain outcome.
What is anxiety?
When apps or websites use information they have collected about you to show you certain types of advertisements.
What is targeted advertising?
Something (such as a headline) designed to make readers want to click on a hyperlink especially when the link leads to content of unreliable value or interest
What is clickbait?
Devices are designed to keep you engaged. They are intentionally ______________________.
What is addicting?
The aspect of someone's character that is presented to or perceived by others
What is a persona?
Social media and the internet may affect your ______________ in ways you don’t fully realize. It creates unrealistic expectations and makes others feel bad about their own ______________.
What is self-esteem and/or body image?
This is an invisible piece of code that gives the exact GPS coordinates of where a photo or video was taken. ANYONE on the internet can see this information.
What is geotagging?
An additional source that confirms or supports a news story, article, or piece of information.
What is corroboration?