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o the ability to better assess the need for community programs and services and to enact policy and funding changes
o the ability to develop and evaluate targeted advertising campaigns and evaluate their success and impact
o the ability to refine business intelligence to determine what individuals might be interested in and, accordingly, the content that they are exposed to online
o the ability to make advancements in scientific and technological research and development
o the need for privacy protection and other security aspects of data storage
Instructional Tips
Teachers can:
• facilitate student-led discussions of current contexts that are of interest to them;
• invite students to share their own experiences of potential implications and consequences of data
collection, storage, representation, and use, creating an inclusive learning environment where
students feel safe sharing;
• highlight the implications and consequences of data collection, storage, representation, and use
from the perspectives of individuals, various levels of government, corporations, and community
organizations;
• provide opportunities for students to reflect on the ways in which data can be misrepresented
and used to mislead audiences.
Teacher Prompts
• What are some everyday situations in which personal data is collected? Who is collecting this data? Who might be using it? How might they be using it?
• How is the importance of individual privacy weighed against the societal value of collecting certain data?
• Social media platforms are constantly collecting data on their users: what you post and posts you look at and like, whom you follow and what topics you search, and even whether you linger on a post while scrolling through your feed. They can often use this data to personalize your experience on their platform and also share this data with third parties that use this data to target ads to you personally. What implications does this have on how you use social media?
• Mapping apps that display traffic information get that information by tracking the phones of the people in traffic. What are some advantages and disadvantages of this method of collecting traffic data?
• What are some issues related to the collection and use of Indigenous data? What could be some possible solutions to those issues?
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