🎯 Learning Objectives
Develop the Communication & Networks and Information Technology Learning Strands:
- Describe how to communicate with peers online.
- Learn how to respectfully communicate with peers online.
💬 Key Vocabulary
- online
- respect
- comments
- community
📖 Stop, speak, support
- Watch this video to hear about situations in which people have been hurt by online comments.
- If you have experienced anything that is talked about in the video, you should speak to an adult or report the comments to the social media provider.
- School is a community and we are all here to look out for each other and support each other. If you see anything online that makes you feel uncomfortable, report it using the links on this page.
📖 Think before you send
- On social media, it is quite easy to make comments from behind a screen and not think about the impact that it has on the person receiving the comments.
- We need to think about our actions before we make comments.
📖 In school, we can share, collaborate, and comment on other people’s work.
📝 Activity 2 – Your ideal partner
In groups of 2 or 3, draw a caricature of your ideal working partner on paper or on the computer.
Which characteristics should you exaggerate?
- Large ears to show that they are a good listener?
- Binoculars to show that they read things carefully?
- A kind smile to show that they won’t be nasty?
📖 Which of these comments are helpful and which are not?
📖 Advice for writing comments online
- Keep it friendly.
- Be specific.
- Try to stick to the facts.
- Remember that your tone can sound different to the reader.
- Avoid sarcasm as it is difficult to interpret online.
- Try to use the ‘sandwich technique’. This means to say something positive, then something critical, and end with something positive.
- Ask a question to start a discussion.
📝 Activity 5 – Sharing a document
With your partner, write down some advice for how you should make comments on other people’s work using the online version of Microsoft Word
Then share your work with someone else in the class by sending them a link using email.
📖 How to receive feedback: always assume good intentions
READ — Read the comment carefully.
STOP — Before you react negatively, assume that the comment comes from a positive place.
APPRECIATE — Say ‘thank you’.
DECIDE — Make a decision: do you agree with it? Could you ask a question about the feedback for clarity? Could you come to a compromise?
REMEMBER — Remember that feedback is there to help you improve, not to make you feel bad.
In this lesson, you…
- Learnt how to be respectful when communicating online
Next lesson, you will…
- Learn about the effects of cyberbullying and begin a group project
🏅 Badge it
🥈 Silver Badge
- Upload a screenshot of your Activity 2 drawing of a good listener to www.bournetolearn.com.
🥇 Gold Badge
- Upload a screenshot showing your email to another student inviting them to your Word document to www.bournetolearn.com.
🥉 Platinum Badge
- Use the knowledge you have gained in today’s lesson to create a poster in Publisher, Word or on paper about how to be a good working partner in a group. Focus on how you can leave good, constructive comments as well as how you can best receive and respond to feedback. You can use your ideal working partner caricatures as part of the poster.
- Upload your Publisher, Word file or a photo of your paper poster to the Platinum badge on www.bournetolearn.com.