Keeping Your Personal Info Safe Online

You can name the kinds of personal info that are worth protecting.

Time: ~15-20 min
Type: concept
Bloom: Understand → Apply
XP: 100

Concept architecture for Keeping Your Personal Info Safe Online — Lesson 12.1 — concept architecture

You'll be able to

You can name the kinds of personal info that are worth protecting.
You can decide what is safe to share in public and what should stay private.
You can spot the warning signs of a phishing message, a scam text, or a scam call.
You can respond safely when something looks off: do not click, verify through a channel you already trust, and report it.
You can build 2 or 3 everyday habits that keep you safer online.

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Idea

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Lock the door first

This is the first lesson in the "Getting Ready for AI" path, and it is free. You do not need any technical background. Think of this as locking your front door before you decorate the house.

By the end you will be able to name the personal info worth protecting, decide what is safe to share, spot a phishing message, respond safely when something looks off, and build two or three everyday habits that keep you safer online.

Prompt Labruns here · claude

Your task Write a prompt that asks Claude to recommend the right AI setup for a real task you're facing — then weigh its answer against this lesson, "Keeping Your Personal Info Safe Online."

a strong prompt:role · context · task · format · example

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Exercise · scenario

Open the last suspicious or "too good to be true" email or text you received (most of us have one sitting in spam). Run the checklist: Is it urgent? Does it ask for info or money or a code? Is the greeting generic? Does the link or sender look slightly wrong? Name at least two warning signs out loud. Then practice the safe response: do not click, decide which trusted channel you would use to verify, and report it. You just did the whole lesson on a real example.

Deliverable

Complete the hands-on task on your own device and note what you did, so the skill sticks.

Common misconceptions

“Trusting the name on a message”
The "From" name, the caller ID, and a logo are all easy to fake. Trust the channel you reach out through, not the one that reached out to you.
“Assuming texts and calls are safer than email”
Smishing and vishing use the exact same tricks. A text with a link or a caller asking for a code deserves the same pause.
“Calling the number in a pop-up or message”
Real security warnings never tell you to call a phone number. That number leads to the scammer, not to help.

Quiz · adaptive · 5 items

Mastery check

Match each term to its definition. Pass at 80% to earn the lesson's XP and unlock the next.

Sources

[1]CP-257063: CISA·CP-257063: CISA, "Recognize and Report Phishing" (Secure Our World) (n.d.) · Standards
[2]"Privacy in the Digital Age·"Privacy in the Digital Age: a Review of Information Privacy Research in Information Systems" (MIS Quarterly, 2011) (CP-255801) (2011) · Research
[3]"Digital Footprints·"Digital Footprints: Opportunities and Challenges for Online Social Research" (Annual Review of Sociology, 2014) (CP-241757) (2014) · Research
[4]FTC Consumer Advice·FTC Consumer Advice, "How To Recognize and Avoid Phishing Scams" (n.d.) · Standards
[5]FTC Consumer Advice·FTC Consumer Advice, "Gift Card Scams" / "Stop Gift Card Scams" (n.d.) · Standards
[6]FTC·FTC, report fraud (n.d.) · Standards

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