Pause Before You Post!

  1. Prayer
  1. Welcome and Introduction
  • Give name tags to all freshman
  • Remind students of your name and if you are new to this Peer Ed section, mention first or second year in Peer Ed, and sport/club involvement at CHC
  • Make sure to wear your nametag!
  1. Review Decision Making Lesson (give ice-cream passes)
  1. What is the complete decision making formula (emphasize PAUSE!) and give an example of how you used it in the past week.
  2. What can one do when they PAUSE?
  1. Twitter Post
  • Handout name tags/labels included with the lesson
  • Tell the class to write on these labels what they would post on Twitter if they had their account up right now. Tell them they can write up to 140 characters
  • Have some of them read them out loud and ask why they wrote it.
  • If you see mostly “tame” posts, comment on how they may be tame because we are here in class instead of at home by ourselves.
  • If there are some “riskier” posts, ask them if they actually post that stuff on-line and if they think they can get in trouble for posting these kinds of things
  • Have them wear their Twitter posts on their shirts next to their nametags. Explain that we are doing this because your Twitter posts don’t actually go away, so we will keep these on us for the whole class time
  1. Cyber Safety Issues
  • ***NOTE to Peer Educators***:after describing Online Drama and Online Reputation, provide personal examples of each.
  • Online Drama
  • Using e-mail, social media, or text to:
  • Send mean or threatening messages
  • Spread rumors
  • Hack into another person’s account to send damaging messages
  • Pretend to be someone else online to tease or hurt another person
  • Spread unflattering pictures or information about a person
  • Take or spread sexually suggestive pictures or messages about a person
  • Online Reputation
  • The beliefs or opinions about someone encouraged by their online presence---including social media profiles and any identifiable online participation
  1. Some On-line Statistics
  • Over half of adolescents and teens have been bullied online, and about the same number have engaged in cyber bullying
  • More than 1 in 3 young people have experienced cyber threats online
  • Over 25 percent of adolescents and teens have been bullied repeatedly through their cell phones or the Internet
  • In 2012, 27% of college admissions officers reported consulting Google and 26% checked Facebook.
  • The percentage who discovered something that negatively impacted an applicant’s chances of getting into the school nearly tripled – from 12% in 2011 to 35% in 2012.
  1. Possible Consequences of Negative Cyber Use
  • Before putting up slide, ask the class to name some potential consequences
  • Calvert Hall
  • CHC School officials do monitor cyber-related issues that occur before, during, and after school…including the Summer
  • Depending on severity:
  • General Detention
  • Suspension
  • Expulsion
  • Outside Calvert Hall
  • Civil suits by angry parents, individuals
  • Criminal charges
  • Damage to your chances of college admission or future employment
  1. Small Group Discussion
  • Form three groups (two if only two peer educators available). Each group takes one scenario and answers the discussion questions included with the lesson.
  • Group 1 Scenario: Classmate creates a fake Facebook account in another student’s name that had untrue and bad things posted on it.
  • Group 2 Scenario: A student posted racist comments on their twitter account. The student deleted the account so that he wouldn’t get in trouble thinking that his posts would go away. He didn’t realize that someone had published these comments in an online journal and now anyone can google this student’s Twitter comments.
  • Group 3 Scenario: A person quoted a movie (Fight Club) that said they were going to kill people and someone took the post seriously and called the police.

***NOTE to Peer Educators***:

Have a freshman from each group present to the class what their group discussed.

  1. Steps for Online Success
  • Consider whether you’d say something to a person’s face before posting it online. Settle any conflicts face to face, not resorting to online means.
  • Remember that though photographs taken in applications like Snap Chat seem temporary, they are often not. Consider whether you want something around forever and/or made public before you take it or post it.
  • Think about how a joke could be taken out of context before you post it. Remember that facial expression and tone of voice are lost, and sometimes people take online posts more seriously.
  • If there is information that you don’t want available, ask in person for whoever posted it to take it down. If they will not take it down, ask a parent, teacher, or counselor to help.
  • Use the privacy settings provided by any of the social networking sites and NEVER give out your password!
  • Keep threatening messages as proof and try to block the person sending the messages
  • Pause before you post!
  1. Review Questions
  1. What is Online Reputation and give an example of how you can affect it?
  2. What are three ways that you can have online success?
  1. Conclusion
  • Collect any work sheets and name tags
  • Thank the freshmen for their attention and introduce the next lesson, Speak Up!, beginning next cycle.
  • Return all supplies to Guidance

CHC Peer Education October 2013