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Grades 6–8 · 6 badges · 20 lessons

Online Ready

Six badges for a kid who already lives online. Your footprint, who you are really talking to, pictures, games and group chats, what is real, and locks.

Badge 1 · Your Footprint

3 lessons · about 30 min
  1. What a photo tells a stranger
  2. Location, on and off
  3. The account you forgot

Badge 2 · Who You're Actually Talking To

4 lessons · about 40 min
  1. It's slow on purpose
  2. They already know what you like
  3. Somebody who listens more than your friends do
  4. Let's talk somewhere else

Badge 3 · When Someone Asks For A Picture

4 lessons · about 40 min
  1. The ask, however it's dressed up
  2. The first sixty seconds after
  3. You are not in trouble and it is not your fault
  4. Paying makes it worse

Badge 4 · Games and Group Chats

3 lessons · about 30 min
  1. Voice chat with people you've never met
  2. Free things aren't
  3. The chat that turns

Badge 5 · What's Real

3 lessons · about 30 min
  1. Faces and voices can be faked
  2. Your mum's in trouble, don't hang up
  3. If a picture of you is faked

Badge 6 · Passwords and Locks

3 lessons · about 25 min
  1. A password worth having
  2. Two-step, on the accounts that matter
  3. Nobody needs your code

Start with badge 1

You already know not to post your address. This badge is about the things you post that say it anyway: the corners of photos, the location arrow, and the account you made when you were nine.

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