Emotional connections and cyberbullying

Digital culture

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Optional subject for 1st to 4th grade of compulsory secondary education

Digital culture: Unit 3 "Emotional Connections"

• Virtual and real-life friends
• Defining and preventing cyberbullying

• To understand and to discuss how to socialise and relate to others online.
• To learn about the importance of image and social networks.
• To discuss about how some behaviours on the Internet can be harmful or dangerous.
• To detect abusing and toxic behaviours online.
• To analyse different types of harassment which can occur on the Internet.

Aims

Contents

3. Students will create a presentation where they list 5 practical tips to improve their daily coexistence and safety online.

3. Students will list their physical (real) friends and virtual friends. They will compare both lists and they will discuss the advantages/disadvantages of having physical and virtual friends.

2. Read the infographics on virtual friends

LESSON 1

1. What is a friend on the Internet?

Activities for 1st grade

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2. After watching these videos, students, in small groups will discuss a cyberbullying situation they know or they have heard about. End the discussions they will present all groups situations and ways to prevent them. 3. Students will make an infographic with some tips on what to do when suffering cyberbullying. 4. In groups, students will do a role-playing situation focusing on the role of the observers and what can they do to help the victim.

Prevention.

Activities for 1st grade

1. Cyberbullying Definition.

LESSONS 2 and 3