Lesson 2 -Communicating Online

Australian Curriculum Content Descriptors:

- Investigate how empathy and ethical decision making contribute to respectful

relationships (ACPPS093 - Scootle )
Elaboration focus: demonstrating and advocating appropriate bystander behaviour
when participating in online interactions, for example in situations where another
person's photo has been tagged without permission, sexting and posting explicit content

Lesson Objectives:

As a result of actively engaging in this lesson students will

- Understand how unwanted or inappropriate actions online can impact an individual

- Know how to respond to unwanted or inappropriate actions online
- Be equipped with the knowledge and skills to affectively and appropriately respond to
situations online

Lesson overview:

- Debate
- Cyber safety video
- Digital citizenship
- Who’s responsibly is it to clean up the mess?
- Cyberbullying
- Giant Jenga Exit card
Lesson Plan

LESSON PLAN TEMPLATE

Learning Area: Emerge Year level/Class: 9 Date: 16/5/19

Unit Topic: Cyber safety and Cyber bullying

Lesson number for this unit: 2

Australian Curriculum Content Descriptors:

- Investigate how empathy and ethical decision making contribute to respectful relationships (ACPPS093
- Scootle )
Elaboration focus: demonstrating and advocating appropriate bystander behaviour when participating
in online interactions, for example in situations where another person's photo has been tagged without
permission, sexting and posting explicit content

Lesson Objectives:

As a result of actively engaging in this lesson students will

- Understand how unwanted or inappropriate actions online can impact an individual

- Know how to respond to unwanted or inappropriate actions online
- Be equipped with the knowledge and skills to affectively and appropriately respond to situations online

LESSON OUTLINE

Introduction (12 minutes)

- Touch on expectations discussed in last lesson.

- Recap on the topics covered in the last lesson.
- Introduce todays topic of cyberbullying and cyber safety

Debate

- In teams of two, one team will debate for the topic and the other team will debate against the topic.
- Give them a debate topic. One group will debate ‘For – Social media sights implementing stronger
protocols to protect young people from unwanted or inappropriate actions online ‘Against – Social media
sights implementing stronger protocols to protect young people from unwanted or inappropriate actions
online’.
- Teams can have 8 minutes to work together and brainstorm possible debate arguments. Teams also need
to think about what the other group might argue so that they are prepared and can rebut their argument
with one of their own thoughts. – help guide students thinking so they have solid arguments.
- Guide the debate if needed by throwing questions to both teams.
- End the debate after 5 minutes and summarise the points made.
- Conclude the debate by referring back to the content taught. Argue that even though we might disagree,
it does not mean we retaliate and create conflict, but to respect their opinions and move on.
Main Learning Task/s

Cyber safety – 10 minutes

- Link this with the Carly Ryan Foundation and the importance of cyber safety.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrln8nyVBLU Watch this video until 2.30 minutes.

- Reflection on your own cyber safety booklet.

- Students will receive a cyber safety reflection booklet to complete.
- This booklet will also be available to complete digitally and can be found on Edmodo.
- This activity will be completed individually, and no talking is required.
- Collect booklets and collate how many students have been cyberbullied. Use this information in the
cyberbullying part of the lesson.

Digital Citizenship – 5 minutes

- Open discussion that being on the internet comes with responsibility of yourself and of others.
- In groups, brainstorm what type of behaviours are associated with people who are good digital citizens.
(go through an example on the board)
- Open discussion to class.
Whose responsibility is it to clean up the mess? – Activity

- The students will stay seated where they are. The teacher will take a seat at the front of the classroom.
- Give the instruction to pass the packet of chips around and break 1 chip. When the bag of chips gets
passed around and gets passed to me, I will open the bag of chips and scatter them in front of me.
- This bag of chips will represent the digital footprint of students sharing a photo of someone I know on the
internet. As every student contributed to breaking the chips, a discussion will be had about who’s
responsibility it is to clean up the chips. ‘Is it mine because I know the person?’, ‘Or is it (the student
standing next to me) because they shared it first without my permission’, or ‘is the responsibility of the
persons who’s in the photo’, or ‘is it all of our responsibility’.
- Have an appropriate class discussion with the class about this activity and the implication of sharing
messages or photos. – we all share a responsibility to look after one another. – this includes those who
cyberbully or are bystanders of cyber bullying.

Cyberbullying

- Watch video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jwu_7IqWh8Y

- Update students on the responses from the booklet – how many students have been cyberbullied in the
class?
- Butches paper brainstorm – How can cyberbullying negatively impact individuals? (groups of 3-4)
 - Report to the class.
- In the same groups, research and list the steps needed to report and stop cyber bullying, as well as online
support people can seek who are struggling to deal with cyberbullying.

Lesson Closure

Giant Jenga Exit Card

Students will come up, one by one, and select 1 block from the giant Jenga. Each block is numbered and these will
coordinate with the questions on the PowerPoint. For example, if a student pulls out a black with the number 20,
they will answer the two questions under the heading 10-20.

Students will answer these questions on a piece of paper and will be collected by the end of the lesson.