Lesson video

Hi, I'm Ms. Kumar, and I'm so pleased that you've chosen to learn with me today.

Today's lesson is called Sharing Our Personal Information, and it's taken from our unit, Media Influence: How Do I Keep Myself Safe Online? Some parts of the lesson might be upsetting or uncomfortable.

We recommend that you do this lesson with a trusted adult.

If at any point you do feel upset or uncomfortable, please pause the video, and speak to your trusted adult.

The outcome for today's lesson is I can explain how to keep my personal information safe.

Before we begin any learning, let's just remind ourselves of some important ground rules.

Laura reminds us to listen to others.

We need to make sure that we have our best listening ears on and that we take turns to speak.

Jacob reminds us no judgement.

This should be a safe space for us to talk, and we shouldn't laugh at anyone for what they think or believe.

Andeep reminds us to respect privacy.

If people share things in this lesson, we shouldn't really talk about it outside of the class.

And finally, Izzy says choose your level of participation.

It's absolutely fine if you don't want to take part in a discussion or answer a question.

Throughout today's lesson, you'll see that there are some words in bold, black font.

These are called keywords.

Let's take a quick look at today's keywords and what they mean.

Information.

In this lesson, information means facts about something or someone.

Personal.

Personal is something about us that is sensitive and private.

Private.

Private means things about you that only the people you trust should know.

And sensitive.

In this lesson, sensitive is when something is delicate and important.

Today's lesson is split into three parts.

Let's start with part one.

What is personal information? There are lots of ways and lots of different reasons why people decide to share information online, but the important thing is that before sharing information, we need to think about what we are about to share, how much we are about to share, and who we are about to share it with.

Time for a quick check for understanding.

I wonder if you can fill in the missing word below.

It's important to think about what, how much, and who we share our blank online with.

You can pause the video to have a think, and then just press play when you're ready to see the answer.

The answer is information.

It's important to think about what, how much, and who we share our information online with.

Well done if you got that correct.

Personal information is anything that can identify you.

That means tell somebody who you are.

Personal information includes lots of different things.

It might include your name, your address, that's where you live, your date of birth, which is sometimes written DOB, and that's the date on which you were born, and the name of the school that you attend.

Time for another check for understanding.

True or false? Personal information is anything that can identify you.

Pause the video to have a think, and press play when you're ready to move on.

The answer is true.

Well done if you got that correct.

Each piece of your personal information is a bit like a jigsaw piece.

Even if you only give away one tiny little piece of personal information, it's easy for someone to put this information together, a bit like completing a puzzle to work out who you are.

Have a look at the image.

For example, by giving away your name to someone, possibly your address, that's where you live, maybe your date of birth, that's when you were born, and the name of the school that you go to, that together completes a big puzzle picture of who you are.

What personal information can you see on this online gamer profile? So let's have a look at the profile together.

You can see that it's Jacob's.

He's written his date of birth as the 11th of April.

Feel free to pause the video, have a think, and just press play when you're ready to move on.

How did you get on? Well, Jacob has given away his name and when he was born.

That's two pieces of personal information.

Well done if you got that correct.

Personal information can sometimes be shared without someone even realising it.

For example, if you share a photograph of you in school uniform, you might be telling people where it is that you go to school, because, quite often, on school uniform, you have a logo or a symbol on a jumper.

If you take a photo of yourself outside of your house, that might give away to people where it is that you live.

It might have the house number in the background or even the street name.

If you take a photograph of yourself outside an entrance sign, for example, at the zoo or a local park, again, that tells people where it is that you are.

Personal information could also be in the background of a photo.

For example, if you were taking a photo of yourself in the kitchen, there might be personal information stuck up on the fridge behind you.

I wonder if you can work out what personal information has Aisha shared in this image.

Feel free to pause the video, have a think, and just press play when you're ready to move on.

Aisha has shared the name of the school that she goes to, as it's on the building behind her, and it's on her uniform.

Well done if you got that correct.

Personal information should always be kept private.

Games and apps usually have privacy settings.

That can help us to limit what we share.

Don't share your usernames and passwords with anyone except your trusted adult.

It's really important that you keep those bits of information safe.

If you're out and about with your family and friends, don't share where you are with anyone online.

If you do decide that you want to share where you are, it's better to tell people where you've been when you're back at home, rather than where you are when you're out and about.

Never share your home address.

Time for another check for understanding.

Personal information can be kept private if we.

A, use privacy settings on games and apps, B, share our usernames and passwords with friends, or C, tell everyone online where we are in the moment.

Pause the video to have a think and then just press play when you're ready to move on.

The answer is A, personal information can be kept private if we use privacy settings on games and apps, and that's something that our trusted adults can help us to set up.

Well done if you got that correct.

We wouldn't share personal information with strangers face-to-face, so it's really important that we don't give our personal information to people that we don't know online.

True or false? We should give personal information to people that we don't know online.

Pause the video to have a think, and just press play when you're ready to move on.

The answer is false.

Have a think about why.

We wouldn't share personal information with strangers face-to-face, so we shouldn't share it with strangers online.

Well done if you got that correct.

That brings us to the first task for today's lesson, Task A.

Jacob has updated his online gamer profile.

Let's have a look at the profile together.

It says Jacob offline.

His status says eating with family at Mario's Restaurant.

Discuss the following questions with your partner.

Number one, apart from his name, what other personal information has he shared? And number two, what one piece of advice would you give to Jacob to make sure his personal information is kept private? Pause the video to do this task, and when you're ready to see the answers, just press play.

How did you get on? Let's take a look at the answers together.

Apart from his name, what other personal information has Jacob shared? Well, Jacob has shared where he is with people online.

He has said that he's eating with family at Mario's Restaurant, so he's told people his location.

Question two says what one piece of advice would you give to Jacob to make sure his personal information is kept private? You might have said avoid sharing where you are.

If you do, share where you've been instead of where you are at the time, and I must also add that, really, you should always check with a trusted adult before you share absolutely anything online.

Well done if you got that correct.

That brings us to the second part of today's lesson.

Why is personal information so powerful? You wouldn't give a stranger your front door key.

If you did, they could let themselves in through your front door, into your home, and take things that belong to you.

In the same way, personal information is a bit like a key to who you are.

Giving our personal information to people that we don't know gives them the power to take our identity, that's who we are.

With our personal information, people that we don't know might pretend to be us, especially in online spaces.

I wonder if you can fill in the missing word below.

Personal information is like a blank to who you are.

Pause the video to have a think, and press play when you're ready to move on.

The answer is key.

Personal information is like a key to who you are.

Well done if you got that right.

With your personal information, someone could: pretend to be you and send messages to people that you know, make friends with your friends by pretending to know you, open accounts for games or apps using your details, they could even buy things without your permission.

With your personal information, someone could: A, pretend to be you and send messages, B, use your details to open accounts for games and apps, and C, buy things with your permission.

Feel free to pause the video, have a little think, and then press play when you're ready to move on.

The answers are A and B.

If anyone asks for your personal information, ignore them, put down the digital device, and tell your trusted adult straight away.

Remember, it's really important that you always talk to your trusted adult if anything worries you online.

True or false? If a stranger asks for your personal information, say yes.

You can pause the video to have a think, and then press play when you're ready to move on.

The answer is false.

Have a think about why.

If anyone asks for your personal information, you must ignore them, put down the digital device, and tell a trusted adult straight away.

Well done if you got that correct.

That brings us to the second task for today's lesson, Task B.

Fill in the blanks using the words below.

If someone takes your personal information, they could send blank pretending to be you, open accounts, or blank things.

If a stranger asks for your personal information, you must blank them, put down the device, and tell a blank adult.

The words that you need are trusted, ignore, buy, messages.

You can pause the video to carry out the task, and then just press play when you're ready to see the answers.

How did you get on? Let's take a look at the answers together.

Your completed paragraph should look like this.

If someone takes your personal information, they could send messages pretending to be you, open accounts, or buy things.

If a stranger asks for your personal information, you must ignore them, put down the device, and tell a trusted adult.

Well done if you got your answers correct.

That brings us to the third and final part of today's lesson.

How can we keep our personal information safe? Some of our personal information is sensitive.

Sensitive information is any of our personal information which needs extra protection.

That means extra looking after.

It is a bit like a really precious object, something that you have that can't be replaced.

You would do your very best to look after it so that nothing happens to it.

That's how we should treat our sensitive information.

Sensitive information should always be kept private and secure.

Only you and your trusted adults, that's parents, carers, or teachers, should know your sensitive information.

Let's have a quick check for understanding.

I wonder if you can fill in the missing word below.

Sensitive information should always be kept private and blank.

You can pause the video to have a think, and then just press play when you're ready to move on.

The answer is secure.

Sensitive information should always be kept private and secure.

Well done if you got that correct.

It's really important that we keep usernames secure.

Jun says "My username on my PC is Jun1207.

"That's because I was born on the 12th of July," and obviously, July is the seventh month of the year.

Jun's username is not secure.

It's got personal information in it.

Take a look again.

Jun1207.

His username not only has his name, but also the date that he was born.

I've changed it to duck0305.

This was my first word, and the date I got my PC.

Jun's username is more secure now.

He's used something which does not link to his personal information, and actually this would be pretty hard for someone to guess.

That makes it a much stronger and more secure username.

Who has the more secure username? Andeep says "My username is Andeep123." Izzy says "My username is penguin7." You can pause to have a think.

Just press play when you're ready to move on.

The answer is Izzy.

Izzy's username is more secure because it's not linked to personal information, and it's harder to guess.

Similarly, it's really important that we keep passwords secure.

Sam says "My password on my digital device is Sam12345." Sam's password is not very secure.

Not only has it got personal information in it because it's got her name, but the numbers are in a sequence, so they're very easy to guess.

Sam says "I've changed my password to Squirt!%, "which is the name of my favourite character in a film." Sam's password is a lot more secure now.

She's used the name of a film character, but she's also used two special characters at the end.

These are a lot harder to guess.

Who has the more secure password? Aisha says "My password is ahsia1701, "which is my name backwards and my birthday." Lucas says "My password is comet with an &, pound, and $, "after my favourite theme park ride." You can pause the video to have a think.

Just press play when you're ready to move on.

The answer is Lucas.

Lucas's password is more secure because it's harder to guess, especially as it includes special characters.

Well done if you got that right.

As well as secure usernames and passwords, there are other things that we can do to help us keep sensitive information private.

Be careful if you are writing usernames and passwords down.

These must be kept somewhere safe, so that only you or your trusted adult can find them.

If you leave them lying around, anyone could see what they are.

True or false? If written down, usernames and passwords should be kept somewhere safe.

You can pause the video to have a think, and then press play when you're ready to move on.

The answer is true.

Well done if you got that correct.

If you think that someone has found out your username or password, then it's really important that you tell your trusted adult straight away.

Together with your trusted adult, you can report it and reset your username and password.

Time for a check for understanding.

If you think that someone has found out your username or password: A, ignore it and hope that they forget, B, tell your trusted adult straight away, or C, report and reset your username and password.

You can pause the video to have a think, and then press play when you're ready to move on.

The answers are B and C.

Tell your trusted adult straight away, report, and reset your username and password with the help of your trusted adult.

Well done if you got that correct.

Alex uses this online profile when he's playing games.

You can see from his online profile that he is showing people his name, it says Alex, but he's also used a photograph of himself in which people can clearly see his face.

Both his name and his face are personal pieces of information, and these should be kept private.

We must not share our personal information online.

Using an avatar is a fun way to stay safe online.

Alex has decided to create a new online profile for when he plays games.

This is Alex's avatar.

Because Alex likes space, he's chosen a picture of an alien instead of a picture of himself.

He's also decided not to share his name, but instead he uses a gamer tag called spaceboy with two special characters.

By using an avatar, Alex makes sure that his personal information is kept private.

True or false? Using our real name and photo online makes sure that our personal information is kept private.

You can pause the video to have a think.

Just press play when you're ready to move on.

The answer is false.

Have a think about why.

Using our real name and photo online gives away our personal information.

Using an avatar is a fun way to stay safe online.

That brings us to the third and final task for today's lesson, Task C.

Design your own avatar to keep you safe online.

Your avatar should include a picture to represent you.

Now, remember, this shouldn't be a picture of you.

This is a picture describing something about you.

It could be your favourite animal or your favourite toy.

You should also have a nickname that no one can guess.

You can look at Alex's avatar as an example, and you can draw your avatar in the circle on the right.

Pause the video to do this task, and then just press play when you're ready to move on.

How did you get on? I hope you had lots of fun designing your own avatar.

Let's take a quick look at some examples together.

Everyone's avatar will look slightly different, but I've given you a few more examples to look at.

If someone had a pet or really likes dogs, they might choose to have a picture of a cute dog with Rover, which is a common dog's name, and some special characters.

Somebody else might choose to have a picture of sunflowers because sunflowers are their favourite flowers, and again, the nickname is Sunny with some special characters.

The important thing is that an avatar should not have any of your personal information.

It should keep your identity safe and secure.

That brings us to the end of today's lesson.

Let's take a quick look at the lesson summary.

Before we share online, it's important to think about what, how much, and who we share with.

Sharing personal information like our name, date of birth, or address could give people the power to take what belongs to us.

People could use it to send messages or buy things pretending to be us.

This is why we must not share our personal information online.

Sensitive information can be kept private by using usernames or passwords that are hard to guess.

Talk to a trusted adult if you are worried that someone might have your personal or sensitive information.

Well done on all your hard work today.

I hope that you've learned lots of helpful things to keep your personal information safe.

If you need any more support or guidance after this lesson, please talk to your trusted adult.

Together with your trusted adult, you can also find more information at the following websites.

Childline, this is a website and phone line which is able to offer confidential advice and support.

CEOP.

CEOP helps protect children from online abuse and exploitation.

Internet Matters.

Internet Matters teaches children and parents how to stay safe and happy online while using the internet.