Exercise name: How to act safely online
Topic: Internet safety
Keywords: online safety, passwords, social networks, sharing
Short Description:
In this activity, students learn in a playful way about what behaviour in the online world is safe and what is risky. Each specific type of behaviour has a brief explanation of why that example is safe/unsafe. The explanation is only very short to give a brief introduction to the context.
Theory:
The task can be worked with individually, with each student solving on their own device.
It can also be solved together in a larger group or in teams, after each draw of a specific situation, a discussion will occur about situations that happen to pupils in the online world.
E.g. for the example “You can say/write anything you want on social media”, the teacher asks about whether a situation has happened to someone where they posted something they regretted or something that backfired on them, etc. These discussions assume a safe classroom environment and trust between the teacher and the students and between the students and each other. Careful choice of questions is advised so that pupils are not worried.