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Risk Check for New Tech

What privacy risks do new technologies present, and how do we decide if they're worth it?

Grade

10

Time

50 mins.

Objectives

  • Identify important benefits and privacy risks that new technologies present.
  • Decide whether or not the benefits of new technologies outweigh their privacy risks.
  • Use the Take a Stand thinking routine to consider both the benefits and the risks of new technologies.

Vocabulary Show definitions

facial recognition
facial recognition – a type of AI technology that can use a digital image of a face to identify a person
Standards
This lesson meets standards for Common Core ELA, ISTE, CASEL and AASL.
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Topics

Privacy & Safety Digital Citizenship & Literacy
Standards
This lesson meets standards for Common Core ELA, ISTE, CASEL and AASL.

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50 mins.
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