🛡️ Phase 3 - Investigation
🛡️ Research
⏱ 10 minutes
Task 4 - Group A: The Protectors
Research theme: Identity as Defense. Investigate how people in "high-risk" environments use ICT to hide their identity to survive.
Key questions to explore - tap to open each one
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Pseudonyms & avatars
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What are pseudonyms and avatars, and why are they safer than real names for some people? Think of it like a stage name - it lets someone speak freely without their words being traced straight back to their physical body or family.
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Encryption (Signal, WhatsApp)
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How does encryption help someone keep their "inner soul" unquantifiable? It scrambles a message so only the sender and receiver can read it - not the app, not an internet provider, not a government watching the network.
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A digital blackout or social media strike
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Find one example of a "Digital Blackout" or "Social Media Strike" used to reclaim mental space or protest a platform's policies. Note what the group was trying to protect by stepping away.
Your deliverable
Group A deliverable
Write your "Security Protocol" - 3 ways to stay "Mystery-ous" online.
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✅ Security Protocol submitted - Group B will stress-test it next.
Bridge to Group B
"Your protection tools are powerful - but do they actually hold up? Group B is about to try to break every one of them."
What happens in Task 4
A 10-minute Phase 3 - Investigation activity as "Group A - The Protectors." Students open three research prompts (pseudonyms & avatars, encryption, a digital blackout), then write a 3-item "Security Protocol" - concrete steps for staying "opaque" online.
🎯 Learning objectives
Investigate how individuals in high-risk, over-surveilled, or personally compromising environments use ICT infrastructure to protect their identity and survive.
♿ SEN Adaptations
- Voice input accepted for all three protocol fields
- Research prompts can be read aloud by the teacher instead of read independently
🖨️ No-Tech Format
- Printed research cards for each of the three questions
- Security Protocol written on a group poster instead of typed