Password Protection with Room 10

We're discussing "Rings of Responsibility" in Grade 4: ways to be responsible to yourself, to your friends and family, and to the community (both in person and online). Common Sense Media has a great lesson on building strong passwords, which connects to digital citizenship at the self level.

The number one rule is ... don't share your passwords with anyone but the grownups you live with!

After that, try and make sure nobody can guess said passwords. We talked about avoiding dictionary words, substituting symbols for letters, and using phone keypad numbers instead of letters.

Using a Common Sense handout, the kids came up with "weak" and "strong" passwords for famous people. For example:

Person: Taylor Swift
Weak password: Tswift
Stronger password: c0un1ry

Person: Pea Shooter (Plants v. Zombies character)

Weak password: starterplant
Stronger password: #cR@Z3DaV3

Person: Selena Gomez
Weak password: IamSelena1234
Stronger password: Se1euag0wez

How strong are YOUR passwords?