April 16, 2020 Apps that Track

Learning Target: I can explain how phone apps can track people.

Warm Up: Directions: After looking at today's political cartoon students should ask themselves if they are aware of how much they are being tracked.

Political Cartoon: Tracking Mr. Brown

Opening: Directions: The students will watch the video of our opening meeting.

The links show in the video of opening meeting are included below. Students may look at them if they wish. However, students are not required to do anything with these links.

Video: Opening Meeting

Trump halts World Health Organization funding over handling of coronavirus outbreak - CNN

The US is halting funding to the WHO. What does this actually mean? - CNN

Former 2020 candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren endorses Joe Biden - ABCNews


Work Session: Directions: The students will watch the three short videos with questions listed below.

Video: How China's Covid-19 tracking app works - CNN April 10 2020

Video: Secretly Tracking Your Kids - NBC Nightly News

Video: Your Apps Watching You - NBC Nightly News


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Standard(s): MA6.CN.1 Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.

a. Identify and build media arts skills that support a variety of career options, higher order thinking, problem-solving, creativity, cultural experiences, and historical events in a global learning context.

MA6.CN.2 Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.

a. Identify and describe trends in the media arts and communicate how the issues of time, place, and culture are reflected to increase innovation and quality of work (e.g. bridging cultural differences, interdisciplinary study, differing perspectives).

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