Zimbabwe

You have entered the cyber-region of Africa and are now in the cyber-country of:

**Zimbabwe** You have a mission to learn about **Privacy and Digital Footprints** dealing with: **// College Bound //** = Your job, if you chose to accept this mission, is to complete as many **//'Activities'//** below that will allow you to earn up $20 American Dollars. Remember, to earn that many American dollars you will have to complete at least 2 (//two//) "Activities" = = = = //(Any extra completed activities will earn you upto $10 American Dollars per assignment)// =

**Activity #1 (Group Activity)**

**Read:** **[|9-12-privacy-collegebound-admissionpacket-handout.pdf].** Locate another student in your class to work with on this short assignment. Once you have selected your teammate, both of you read the following paragraph before you start this activity:

**You** will be role-playing college admissions officers, the people who decide which candidates should be admitted to a college. Two high school seniors, Markus and Tommy, have applied for admission to college. Their applications include their grades, test scores, and a personal essay. The problem is that the college only has room for one of them. The admissions officers decide to gather information from each candidate’s digital footprint to help make their decision. //(Note: You will likely have a variety of paths in yourfuture. Many of the same factors that affect your college admissions would also apply to getting a job or getting into a training program.) // **Download** the student handout from above, print, and complete it on your own before you work with your partner.

**Together** with your partner, discuss which applicant you chose to admit, and why.

**Discuss** together and further probe into your choices by using referrig to these follow-up questions.

**Why** did you not choose the other candidate? Is there additional information about this candidate that could have made you want to choose him? //Sample responses (these are samples, do not use them, write in your own words): //
 * We did not select Tommy because we thought he was fake or insincere. //(Maybe it would make a difference if you knew that the exchange between Tommy and his friend Maggie was a private joke. Maybe Maggie is also trying to get in to the same college as Tommy and Markus, and writes joke messages to make Tommy seem shallow.)//
 * Markus did not get in because he did not seem that interesting. //(Maybe it would make a difference if Markus had a stronger online presence that showed he was interested in things other than sports.)//

**Do** you think the comments by JJ and Maggie had a positive or negative effect on their friends’ chances for college? Do you think this is what they intended when they wrote the comments? //(You should recognize that these comments revealed private information about Markus and Tommy, and also emphasized negative rather than positive qualities. JJ and Maggie almost certainly did not mean to hurt their friends’ chances to get into college; they just weren’t thinking carefully about it.)//

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">**Do** you think this is a good way for a real admissions officer to make a final choice? Why or why not? //(You should understand that while admissions officers, prospective employers, and the like sometimes do look at online profiles, this may not be the best or fairest way to assess someone. The material that appears online may not present a full or accurate picture of a person and of his or her personality and achievements.)//

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">**What** are the larger ethical and practical issues involved in sharing information online?

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">**What** are some ways teens share information online?

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">**Do** you think teens share too much information about yourselves online? Why or why not?

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">In this **activity**, you have a lot of questions to discuss and answer together. What is required of you as a team is to write up a summary paragraph of your discussion with each other and the answers to 50% of the questions above. You are not required to answer every question, but make sure you have discussed every question with your partner.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">**Each** student should post their own summary paragraph, do not copy each other's work, but summarize the work you did together in your own words. Post the summary to your Travel Logs under the Intellegence Activities tab with the title; "**Team Work and my Thoughts**".

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">[Worth upto $20 American Dollars]