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This Full paper in the Innovative Practice Category introduces an innovative visual privacy themed pre-university educational module using social media apps for creating ...Show MoreMetadata
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This Full paper in the Innovative Practice Category introduces an innovative visual privacy themed pre-university educational module using social media apps for creating privacy awareness as well as teaching societal and human security topics. With the advent of internet (World Wide Web) and social media, and the extensive use of these resources by naïve young users, privacy issues pop up every now and then. The lack of privacy and security awareness may lead to confidential information leaks during the use of online contents, particularly social media. The current IEEE/ACM curricular guidelines in CS, IT and cybersecurity clearly point to a need for inclusion of societal and human security topics at the college level, so that a general awareness can be created regarding today's growing privacy concerns, including privacy issues with media sharing. However, there is still a gap within the K-12 curriculum in regard to these security and privacy topics. Even though there has been some computing educational research work on the topic of data privacy at the K-12 level, the visual privacy theme under the societal and human security domain has hardly been explored within K-12. None of the K-12 cybersecurity educational modules have employed the privacy-enhanced computer vision theme along with a social media platform. This paper intends to address the this gap by presenting a visual privacy themed lesson plan using social media apps for teaching privacy, ethics and machine learning. Its main contribution is a unique visual privacy education based hands-on outreach module that utilizes the PVA (Privacy through Visual Anonymity) notion to teach privacy, ethics and machine learning using media images and videos. Our module uses two freely accessible apps, namely an Obscura Cam and YouTube - Face Blur. These apps are utilized to illustrate the concept of visual privacy and demonstrate PVA in pictures and media clips. Additionally, this paper describes our research case study ...
Published in: 2018 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE)
Date of Conference: 03-06 October 2018
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 07 March 2019
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