Curriculum / subject
Social Media: Dangers & Ethics
Ages 11 to 18Life Skills
How feeds are engineered, what they take from you, how predators and scams operate, and how to act online with the same ethics you hold offline.
What this subject teaches
Learner explains how recommendation algorithms monetize attention, identifies three manipulation patterns in their own feeds, applies a personal usage policy, and recognizes grooming and scam approaches.
Real-world applications
Daily digital life, protection from real predators and fraud, mental health, and the reputation trail that follows every future applicant.
Modules
The Attention Economy
The learner discovers that when the product is free, attention is the product, and audits how apps are engineered to keep them scrolling.
Predators and Scams: Recognizing the Approach
The learner studies how online predators and scammers actually operate: the flattery, the secrecy request, the urgency, and the ask.
Your Digital Footprint and Online Ethics
Everything posted is permanent and public in principle; the learner audits real footprints and writes their own code of online conduct.