This session is facilitated by Alan Smith
About this session
Attendees will discuss the threats and security risks to online browsing and shopping facing low-digital-literacy individuals. In a group, or breakout groups depending on size, we will collaboratively brainstorm an activity that teaches safer online behavior and how to combat the threats/risks that were identified earlier. The group will be encouraged to develop a lo-fi, interactive and engaging activity for participants. Time permitting, we will list the steps to recreate that activity and develop a teaching guide which can be shared for others to use after the session.
Goals of this session
Consumer Reports is hosting volunteer-led workshops around the country to educate (often elderly and often rurally located) members in how to best protect themselves online. These people are spending more time online, and many have low web literacy skills, which can make them vulnerable targets.
Consumer Reports has spent decades informing consumers of how to stay safe in the face of existing and emerging threats. Today, that means helping people safely make purchases online. The goal of this session is to discuss the risks of browsing and making purchases online, and then collaboratively develop a fun and interactive activity to teach people how to protect themselves. At the end, we will have developed an activity that can be implemented in Consumer Reports on-going privacy curriculum and adopted by volunteers nationwide.