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Digital Citizenship: Gr 7 Digital Citzenship

Common Sense Media Topics & Habits of Mind

Gr 7 - Big, Big Data

Essential Question: How do companies collect and use data about you?

Lesson Vocabulary:

Consumer - A person who buys products or services to use

Data - Facts and statistics collected together to be used for different purposes

Targeted advertising - When apps or websites use information they have collected about you to show you certain types of advertisements

Cookies - Small text files stored on a computer that keep track of what a person does on a website

Gr 7 - My Social Media Life

Essential Question: How does social media affect our relationships?

Lesson Vocabulary:

Social media - Websites and applications that enable users to create and share content or to participate in social networking

Oversharing - Sharing personal feelings, information, or
experiences that later make the sharer feel uncomfortable or regretful

Red flag feeling - When something happens on digital media that makes you feel uncomfortable, worried, sad, or anxious

Gr 7 - The Four Factors of Fair Use

Essential Question: What rights to fair use do you have as a creator?

Lesson Vocabulary:

Copyright - Legal protection that creators have over the things they create

Public domain - Creative work that's not copyrighted and free to use without permission

Fair use - The ability to use copyrighted work without permission, but only in certain ways and specific situations