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ARKAI Readiness Kollective
AI Literate · Grades 6-8Module 5

Facilitator guide: Privacy & Your Data

60 minutesReview status: Being checked
Open the lessonsSlide deck (Google Drive)

Materials

  • Cards for the Step 2 sort (8 cards) and the Step 3 sort (6 cards)
  • Projector for the slide deck
  • Copies of the pre/post check
  • Paper and pencils for Reflect

Lesson steps

  1. 1. What does your favorite app know? (Explainer, 5 min)
  2. 2. Where your data goes (Explainer, 7 min)
  3. 3. Read the policy (Explainer, 7 min)
  4. 4. Protect your data (Explainer, 7 min)
  5. 5. The quiz app (Scenario, 6 min)
  6. 6. Quick check (Quick check, 4 min)
  7. 7. My privacy check (Reflect, 5 min)
  8. 8. Recap (Recap, 3 min)

Timing

Part 60 min 90 min
Pre-check 4 5
Step 1: What does your favorite app know? 5 7
Step 2: Where your data goes 7 10
Step 3: Read the policy 7 10
Step 4: Protect your data 7 10
Step 5: The quiz app 6 8
Step 6: Quick check 4 5
Step 7: My privacy check 5 13
Step 8: Recap 3 4
Post-check 4 5
Buffer 8 13
Total 60 90

Before you start

  • Instagram requires users to be 13 or older in most regions, and learners are 11 to 13. Do not ask who has an account.
  • Reflect is private. Do not ask learners to share their devices or what they wrote.
  • The quiz app and the policy lines are invented.
  • Name products only as examples.
  • Any settings check happens at home with a parent or guardian.

Discussion prompts

  • What would you trade for a free app, and what would you never trade?
  • If an app is free, who is paying for it, and how?
  • When you share your contacts, who else is affected?
  • Which of the three policy questions matters most to you? Why?

Answer notes

  • Step 2 sort: the first six are Needed. Flashlight and contacts, and Instagram and contacts, are Not needed. Let learners argue edge cases before you reveal.
  • Step 3 sort: two lines for each question. Accept a different answer if a learner can point to the words that support it.
  • Step 5: B and D are the strongest. C is also safe. A gives away the most. Accept any choice a learner can explain.
  • Step 6: B, D, C, A, B.
  • Pre/post: B, C, A.
  • Discussion prompts have no single right answer. For the second one, steer toward ads, shared data, and paid upgrades. Do not claim how any one company makes money unless you have checked.

Vocabulary sources

Words to know

personal data
Information that can be tied to you, such as your name, location, contacts, or what you type.
data broker
A company that collects information about people and sells it.
privacy policy
A document where a company says what data it collects and what it does with it.
permission
Access you give an app, such as to your camera, contacts, or location.

Workshop quick checks

Learners can answer these on their own phones with no account. Answers count toward ARK's anonymous totals.