🖱️ Phase 2 - Encounter
🎥 Audio/Visual
⏱ 5 minutes
Task 2 - The Trail Left by One Click
Enough language to investigate - while the central mystery stays open.
Step 1 - Tap each step of the click trail
🔍
Search
🍪
Cookie
🎯
Recommendation
📤
Shared screenshot
Step 2 - Two key ideas
Digital identity
How a person appears online - their profiles, usernames, posts and the impression they build up over time.
Digital footprint
The data left behind by online actions - searches, clicks, likes, and the apps and devices used.
Step 3 - Tap each example, then tap the matching bin
A comment you post
A photo you share
A public reply
An app tracking your location
A website's cookie
Your device's usage data
✋ Active footprint
👣 Passive footprint
Next up
Information is not simply safe or unsafe. Who needs it, why, and what could happen if it travels further?
What happens in Task 2
A 5-minute Phase 2 - Encounter activity. Students follow a click trail, meet the definitions of digital identity and digital footprint, then sort six examples into active footprints (things you do) and passive footprints (data collected about you).
🎯 Learning objectives
To give students enough language to investigate while keeping the central mystery open, and to help them accurately define digital identity and digital footprint.
♿ SEN Adaptations
- Illustrated vocabulary for each trail step
- Sentence starters and text-to-speech available
- Simplified 2-item sort available on request
🖨️ No-Tech Format
- Teacher draws the click trail on the board and narrates each step
- Example words printed on cards and physically sorted into two piles