1 - Start ~3 mins
You already have ways of judging whose work something is and when credit is needed. Today the question shifts from whose work to whose life.
You will sort everyday sharing situations and work out when another person's consent is needed before something goes online, even if they never pressed share themselves.
2 - Examine and Discuss ~7 mins
Look at this invented moment together: Aoife films her friend Conor slipping on the wet footpath outside the school gate. The clip is funny. Conor is laughing at the time. That evening Aoife wants to put it on a story her whole year group can see.
Talk it through:
- Who is in the content or named by it?
- Did they clearly agree to this share, in this place, with this audience?
- What could go wrong for them if it travels further than expected?
Personal information means anything that can identify someone or is private about them: a name, a face, a school, a location, a message, a photo or a clip of them.
Consent means a clear yes to this share, with this audience, given freely and with enough understanding of where it will go.
The person who posts is not the only person with rights. If you appear in a photo, a clip or a chat screenshot, you have a say in whether that gets shared, even if you never opened the app.
3 - Hands-on: Whose Consent Do You Need? ~4 mins
Sort each invented sharing situation into one of three boxes: Fine to share, Ask first, or Never without clear consent.
In pairs, decide a box for each card and be ready to justify with the three questions. You have 4 minutes, then we lock them as a class.
For every card, be ready to say:
- Who is in the content or named by it?
- Did they clearly agree to this share, in this place, with this audience?
- What could go wrong for them if it travels further than expected?
There is a defensible home for each card, but the reasoning is the point. If the class disagrees, argue it out and only then lock the placement.
Whose consent do you need?
4 - Class Play: Everyone Answers ~10 mins
Now the whole class plays the rest, on your own devices.
Join with the code on the board. Everyone answers every round, not one person per table, and you can change your answer until the time is up. You also say how sure you are: just checking, fairly sure, or certain. The class's split appears on the board once the round closes, then the reasoning.
- Read the item, make your sort, and lock it in.
- Your table scores when you get it right together, so talk it through quietly first if you want to.
- When the reasoning comes up, check it against the one you gave.
Getting it right matters less than being able to say why. A right answer earns what you staked and a wrong one loses it, so being unsure and saying so costs you very little - being certain and wrong is what costs. Every round has a defensible answer, and the reasoning behind it is what you are here for.
Class Play
5 - Hands-on: Make It Shareable ~8 mins
Take something that could not be posted and change it until it could.
Every picture in the library says whether it is free to reuse, needs a credit, or is off limits. One of them will refuse to be used. Check before you place, and open Credits at the end for anything that needs crediting.
Build a post that started out unshareable, and fix it.
Take a picture from People and faces, or one from School and street that shows a door number or a name. Now treat it as something that should not be public, and use blur, pixelate or a cover box until that thing is genuinely gone - not just harder to see.
Then answer this in your head, ready to say out loud: what could NOT be fixed by editing, and would have needed someone to say no instead?
Your work saves as you go. Use the save button to keep a copy on your own device.
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