If you think password is an acceptable password, think again! A short video demonstrates the importance of an unguessable password as part of a Google series on digital citizenship.

Concepts

Digital Citizenship, passwords, internet safety, online communication, Social Media

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Additional Tags

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Instructional Ideas

• Assign the video for homework, along with a set of review questions for pupils to bring back to class the next day
• Incorporate into a lesson on digital citizenship at the beginning of the school year before authorizing students to use the Internet at school

Classroom Considerations

• Does not address the implications of someone breaking into another person's account; discuss this point with the class
• The second part of a five-video series on Internet safety

• This video is hosted on YouTube

Pros

• Provides examples of safe and secure passwords
• Simplifies a complicated concept so learners can relate to it
• Comes with a lesson and worksheets to reinforce the activity

Cons

• None

Common Core

SL.6.2 SL.7.2 SL.8.2