Step 1: Browsing Without Circumvention

Step 1: Browsing Without Circumvention
Have participants gather in a U-shape, a circle, or any suitable shape that permits them to still be able to see everyone else in the room. Hand each participant a numbered post-it to wear on their shirt. Assign someone to be a Sender of a message and a Recipient:
•E.g.: Trainee A is Sender, Trainee B is Recipient;
•E.g.: Trainer is Sender, Trainee A is Recipient
With a pen or marker, write the name of the Recipient on the piece of paper and hand this to the next person in line. Ask them to hand it on down the line until the paper reaches the Recipient:
•At this point, explain that this is typically how we reach websites. Our PC connects to something nearby, perhaps to a WiFi hotspot, and then to our service provider, and then to many other players in a chain.
•All of these learn what website we want to visit thanks to information we provide when we open our browser and type an address, or click on a link.
•If someone – say, our service provider, does not want us to visit a website, they can stop us by looking at our request.