How do you communicate?
Form new groups of three. Each group should have a designated writer.
As a group, you will discuss, and then make lists for, the following topics.
A. In what ways do you communicate with your friends, family, and classmates? This can include telephones, texting, and Facebook.
B. In what ways do you gain information about the world around you. This can include books, magazines, Google, Wikipedia, etc.
As a group, you will discuss, and then make lists for, the following topics.
A. In what ways do you communicate with your friends, family, and classmates? This can include telephones, texting, and Facebook.
B. In what ways do you gain information about the world around you. This can include books, magazines, Google, Wikipedia, etc.
How much of the information that you access and distribute is done so digitally? How much of this digital information would you feel comfortable sharing with your parents? Your teacher? Your principal?
Discuss, as a group, the meaning of the terms "privacy" and "authority.: Then, discuss the relationship between these two concepts. Do you share more or less information with a person as they gain more authority over you? Why do you feel that is this the case? |
As a group, write a two page essay exploring the role government authority plays in a citizen's desire for privacy.
Questions to consider:
Do you feel that this relationship is linear (the more authority a government has, the more privacy a citizen wants) or do you feel that there is a tipping point (eventually, a government can have so much power that a citizen no longer cares so much about their privacy)?
How does privacy protect citizens?
Should the government be allowed to know if I search "how to build a bomb" or "how to get away with assassination" on Google?
Email your lists and your essay, including each group member's name, to [email protected]
Questions to consider:
Do you feel that this relationship is linear (the more authority a government has, the more privacy a citizen wants) or do you feel that there is a tipping point (eventually, a government can have so much power that a citizen no longer cares so much about their privacy)?
How does privacy protect citizens?
Should the government be allowed to know if I search "how to build a bomb" or "how to get away with assassination" on Google?
Email your lists and your essay, including each group member's name, to [email protected]