What is COPPA?
- COPPA stands for the “Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act”
- COPPA is a U.S.
Students come to understand the need to make responsible choices in order to ensure personal safety when using the Internet. Students learn more about Web 2.0 and corresponding safety tips. They incorporate images and text in the creation of a safety tip sheet.
Students relate online privacy to personal safety in a class discussion about age-appropriate sites and apps. Through exploration of online registration forms and profiles, students discover the importance of following age requirements (COPPA) and protecting online identity. Students create a mock-up of a safe and secure online profile as part of their Empowerment Project: the designe of a virtual world called Sock Puppet Nation.