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RSHEOnline life and digital wellbeing20 min★ difficulty

Privacy, sharing and the offline consequences

Everything posted has a second life: copied, screenshotted and resurfaced later. That is not a reason to be afraid of the internet, but it is a reason to think in advance.

Lesson overview

What you'll learn in this lesson

Understand how online behaviour, sharing and privacy affect people offline

Key learning points

  • • What a footprint is
  • • Sharing other people
  • • If something goes wrong

This lesson at a glance

  • 20 minutes
  • 16 parts to scroll through
  • 4 quick checks
  • Marked quiz at the end
  • Gentle pace: short sittings with pauses

Words to know

onlinebehavioursharingprivacyaffect

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Watch first

Privacy, sharing and the offline consequences

An English teaching video on this topic from NLB Singapore. Watch it, then scroll down for the lesson.

In a nutshell

Understand how online behaviour, sharing and privacy affect people offline

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Learning cycle

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Learning cycle 1 of 2

Part 1 · What a footprint is

A short piece of teaching, then a check to make sure it has landed.

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Explore the idea

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Learn

What a footprint is

Your digital footprint is everything traceable to you: posts, comments, likes, photos others tag, location data and account activity. Deleting a post removes your copy, not everyone else's.

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Explore the idea

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Learn

Sharing other people

Sharing someone else's photo, message or news is a decision about their privacy, not yours. Asking first is the whole rule. Sharing intimate images of a person under eighteen is illegal, even if they sent it themselves and even if you are also under eighteen.

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Quick check

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Quick check

What is a digital footprint?

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Quick check

Part 6 of 16

Quick check

Before sharing a photo of a friend, what should you do?

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Reset break

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Pause

That's sitting 1 of 2 done

Stretch, get a drink, look out of the window. There is no timer and nothing is counting down — your place is saved, so you can come back in five minutes or tomorrow.

Stop here for now
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Learning cycle

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Learning cycle 2 of 2

Part 2 · If something goes wrong

A short piece of teaching, then a check to make sure it has landed.

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Explore the idea

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Learn

If something goes wrong

Do not delete the evidence. Screenshot, block, report inside the app, and tell a trusted adult. Report Remove, run by Childline and the Internet Watch Foundation, can get intimate images of under-eighteens taken down. Nobody is in trouble for asking for help.

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Quick check

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Quick check

What should you do first if something goes wrong online?

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Quick check

Part 11 of 16

Quick check

Who can help remove intimate images of under-eighteens?

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Explore the idea

Part 12 of 16

Worked example

Worked example: the pause question

Before posting, ask: would I be comfortable if this were seen by a stranger, a relative and myself in five years? If any of those three makes you wince, save it as a draft instead. The test takes seconds and settles most decisions without a rule book.

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Challenge round

Part 13 of 16

Game · Sort it

Which of these are true?

Drag each card into the right column. Tap a card first if dragging is fiddly.

True

Not true

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Challenge round

Part 14 of 16

Game · Fill the gaps

Finish the sentences

Choose the word that belongs in each gap.

____ someone else's photo, message or news is a decision about their privacy, not yours.

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Mastery quiz

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Marked quiz

End of lesson quiz: Privacy, sharing and the offline consequences

4 questions, marked with the reasoning shown. No timer.

  1. 1. What is a digital footprint?

  2. 2. Before sharing a photo of a friend, what should you do?

  3. 3. What should you do first if something goes wrong online?

  4. 4. Who can help remove intimate images of under-eighteens?

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Lesson round-up

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Lesson round-up

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Points this lesson

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Do the work

Your written work for this lesson

This is the part you'd do in your book at school. Pick the pieces below, write here or on paper, and photograph anything you draw or work out.

Case study

The group chat

Ellie is added to a class group chat with twenty-six people in it. At first it is jokes and homework questions. Then someone screenshots a private message from a girl in another class and posts it. Several people laugh. Two people leave the chat. Ellie says nothing, and feels bad about it that evening.

The next day the girl is off school. A teacher asks the class about the chat. Nobody wants to be the one who tells.

Staying silent can feel like the safest choice in the moment. It also leaves the person who was hurt on their own.

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Reading questions

  1. What choices did Ellie have at the moment the screenshot was posted?
  2. Who could she tell, and what would each of them be able to do?
  3. Write what you would do in this situation and why, in 6–8 sentences.

  • Thinking it through

    Writing

    Write what you would do in this situation, who you would ask, and why.

    6–8 sentences

Saved as you type.

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