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Educational Games

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Co-Co's Adversmarts Co-Co's AdverSmarts: An Interactive Unit on Food Marketing on the Web
(Ages 5-8)
In this unit, Co-Co explains how advertisers target kids online, teaching young children to recognize online marketing techniques used in "advergames" and other immersive Web environments.


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Privacy Pirates: An Interactive Unit on Online Privacy
(Ages 7-9)

This tutorial introduces children, ages 7-9, to the concept of online privacy and teaches them to distinguish between information that is appropriate to give out and information better kept private – and to recognize how this may change in different contexts.


 

Passport to the Internet

Passport to the Internet: Student tutorial for Internet literacy
(Grades 4-8)
This interactive tutorial teaches students the critical thinking skills they need to apply to their online experiences, including online safety, authenticating online information, recognizing online marketing
ploys, protecting their privacy, managing online relationships and dealing with cyberbullying.

(Available through a licensing arrangement. For information on how to obtain a licence see the Resource Catalogue. Many provinces, territories, school boards and districts and individual schools have already licensed Passport to the Internet. To find out if your school has a licence, please click here.)


Top Secret!

Top Secret!
(Grades 6-8)
This interactive narrated tutorial teaches students about the benefits and drawbacks of sharing information online. Students give their opinion about what the characters in the story should do about their privacy dilemmas, from posting photos to buying music online, and they receive feedback on their responses as the story unfolds.

(Top Secret! was developed by Media Awareness Network for Common Sense Media and is hosted on their site as part of a larger lesson series on online privacy management.)


Privacy Playground Privacy Playground: The First Adventure of the Three CyberPigs
(Ages 8-10)
In this first adventure, the CyberPigs learn about online marketing, and about protecting their privacy as they surf the Internet.


CyberSense and Nonsense CyberSense and Nonsense: The Second Adventure of the Three CyberPigs
(Ages 9-12)
In their second adventure, the CyberPigs explore the world of chat rooms and learn to distinguish between fact and fiction, and to detect bias and harmful stereotyping in online content.


Jo Cool or Jo Fool Jo Cool or Jo Fool:Interactive Module and Quiz on Critical Thinking for the Internet
(Grades 6-8)
This interactive online game takes students through a series of mock sites that test their savvy surfing skills. The game ends with an online quiz, that gives students an even more in-depth level of information.

The Target is You! Quiz The Target is You!: Alcohol Advertising Quiz
(Grades 6-8)
This quiz helps students recognize when they're being targeted by alcohol marketers and to understand how media messages about alcohol can influence their attitudes towards drinking.


Allies and Aliens

Allies and Aliens: Interactive Module on Online Hate
(Grades 7-8)
This animated module takes students on a mission from Planet Earth to assess the varying degrees of prejudice, misinformation, and hate propaganda on the "Galactic Web."

 

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MyWorld: A digitial literacy tutorial for secondary students

This tutorial aims to teach students essential digital literacy skills through simulating their favourite online experiences. The tutorial is divided into four chapters, each of which focuses on a particular aspect of digital literacy: researching and authenticating online information, managing privacy and reputation, dealing with online relationships and using digital media in an ethical manner.

(Available through a licensing arrangement. For information on how to obtain a licence see the Resource Catalogue.)

   

 

 


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Co-co's Adversmarts
Privacy Playground
CyberSense and Nonsense
Jo Cool or Jo Fool
The Target is You! Quiz
Allies and Aliens

 
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