Share information about cookies, including how they work, their benefits and drawbacks, and ways to avoid tracking cookies
About This Module
This curriculum module is based on takeaways from series two of NYC Digital Safety training videos. You may use this module by:
- Including it in your pre-existing public workshops
- Combining it with other NYC Digital Safety modules to make a longer data-privacy focused workshop
- Sharing the handout with library users at various service points
Downloadable presentation slides, a facilitation guide, a handout, and instructions for a fun challenge can be found below. The handout from this module has been translated into Chinese, Haitian-Creole, Russian, and Spanish.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this module, learners will be able to:
- Define cookies
- Describe the uses of cookies online, include benefits and drawbacks
- Identify methods for avoiding tracking cookies
Lesson Plan
This lesson plan is also included in the downloadable facilitation guide below. You are welcome to use any and all of this, or adapt it as you see fit.
This module will take approximately 60 to 65 minutes to complete and includes an activity and time for discussion.
Welcome and introduction
Greet learners and review the plan for this module
Define cookies
Provide a brief definition of cookies and see if anyone has any questions or anything to add
What cookies do and the types of cookies
Provide an overview of different types of cookies and how they function. See if anyone has any questions
Discussion: Opting Out OF cookies
See if learners will alter their approach to cookies based on what you have presented so far
What cookies contain
Explain what cookies contain and what tasks they perform
How to manage cookies
Review the suggestions for managing cookies, as well as the pros and cons of these approaches
Activity: Cookie Memory Challenge
Allow your learners to test what they’ve learned with a matching and sorting game
Activity wrap-up
Conclude this activity with a brief discussion about what people learned and their takeaways
Wrap up, final tips, and final questions
Review the closing thoughts and share the suggested resources. See if anyone has any final questions
Next Steps
Download the materials below for use in your workshop or at service points throughout your library.
If you plan to create a longer privacy-focused workshop using these materials, here is a link to Google slides. Feel free to make a copy if you’d like to add these slides to any other deck.
And please let us know how it went! Use this form to share your feedback on this module. We’d love to hear from you.