Learn My Way: Keeping Your Personal Data Safe

One-hundred percent of those reading this sentence are human beings. Wait, what? With part eight in the Crash Course: Navigating Digital Information set, pupils learn how to think critically about statistics. Scholars discover how...

In this course, you will learn how to protect your device and the information on it. You will learn how to keep your devices safe from possible threats, and how to use screen locks. You will also learn how to save a backup of the...

Watch as Jer Thorp, former analyst for the New York Times, presents models of human behavior based on Twitter activity. Use the video to show your class the impact and scale of social media during a technology unit. The presenter is...

Students use the computer and S'COOL data for statistical analysis.

Class members use the Investigative Reporting Article Planner they completed the first day of the unit to guide the development of an infographic that displays what they have learned about the topic they researched. 

Protecting your personal information can help reduce your risk of identity theft.

NBC News' Jeff Rossen demonstrates how apps like Netflix, Candy Crush, and Starbucks can collect user data and what can be done to stop it. [2:12]

In this course, you will learn how to watch TV online. By accessing TV services online, it gives you more flexibility in what you watch and when you watch it. Includes an online quiz when you finish the tutorial.

Privacy is the ability to keep certain things to yourself, for them not to be seen by or shared with others. Personal data is information about you collected by the apps and websites you visit (like the things you like and open). This...

In this online course, students will learn all about different social networks such as Twitter, Pinterest and Google+ and how to stay in control of your information and stay safe.