Being safe and responsible online
Most online risk is social, not technical. Knowing how pressure and persuasion work online protects you more than any setting.
Part of your national curriculum
- Creativity and digital literacy: Understand a range of ways to use technology safely, respectfully, responsibly and securely, including protecting online identity and privacy
Lesson overview
What you'll learn in this lesson
Use technology safely, respectfully and responsibly
Key learning points
- • Your data footprint
- • Judging what you read
This lesson at a glance
- 20 minutes
- 12 parts to scroll through
- 3 quick checks
- Marked quiz at the end
- Gentle pace: short sittings with pauses
Words to know
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Being safe and responsible online
Most online risk is social, not technical. Knowing how pressure and persuasion work online protects you more than any setting.
In a nutshell
Use technology safely, respectfully and responsibly
Explore the idea
Part 2 of 12
Learn
Your data footprint
Posts, locations and searches build a profile that outlives your interest in it. Ask what a stranger could learn from a week of your activity.
Explore the idea
Part 3 of 12
Learn
Judging what you read
Check who published it, when, and whether another independent source agrees. Strong emotion in a headline is a reason to slow down.
Reset break
Part 4 of 12
Pause
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Stretch, get a drink, look out of the window. There is no timer and nothing is counting down — your place is saved, so you can come back in five minutes or tomorrow.
Quick check
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Quick check
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Quick check
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Reset break
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Pause
That's sitting 2 of 3 done
Stretch, get a drink, look out of the window. There is no timer and nothing is counting down — your place is saved, so you can come back in five minutes or tomorrow.
Challenge round
Part 9 of 12
Game · Sort it
Which of these are true?
Drag each card into the right column. Tap a card first if dragging is fiddly.
True
Not true
Challenge round
Part 10 of 12
Game · Recall cards
DNS turns a domain name into…
Card 1 of 4
Mastery quiz
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Marked quiz
End of lesson quiz: Being safe and responsible online
4 questions, marked with the reasoning shown. No timer.
1. DNS turns a domain name into…
2. Data crosses the internet in…
3. The browser's job is to…
4. The biggest everyday online risk is usually…
Lesson round-up
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Lesson round-up
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Understand a range of ways to use technology safely, respectfully, responsibly and securely, including protecting online identity and privacy