Lesson video

I'm Rebecca, you're computing teacher and we've got our special guest, Echo the dog there, with us today.

I think she likes to listen in every so often.

So you might see her there sometimes.

This lesson, you're going to need a pen and paper and you're going to also need to try and remove any distractions out the way that you can, so that you can really focus.

So once you've done that, we can begin.

In this lesson, you will define respectful communication, describe what is appropriate to say and do, explain how your online presence can influence others opinions and explain how internet use is monitored.

So what is respect? Write down what you think the word respect means.

Do this now, pause the video.

Fantastic.

Respect could be having an appreciation for someone that you look up to.

It could also be thinking of others, accepting their differences and being kind and supportive.

And respect is something that you should also have for yourself.

Communicating online can be difficult.

This is because people can not see your facial cues and words can be misinterpreted very easily.

It is important to always be respectful when communicating online.

Now, email is a tool that is often used for online communication.

You might be using email to communicate with your teachers, or your classmates.

The next few slides are emails that have been sent in a school.

I want you to decide if they are respectful or not.

So here's that first one, take a few moments to read it and pause the video if you need to.

So this is from a learner to a teacher.

Now, when you're talking to a teacher, you don't say things like soz and LOL to them because that is seen as disrespectful and you also wouldn't do that in an email as well.

You've also got the subject that says, "Hi, Miss!".

There's no sort of clear information about what this email is about and that's what the subject is for.

And then we've got, "Can we not have any homework this week Because I did not like the last one that you sent out and I really wanted to play online instead." Now that is not an appropriate thing to say to a teacher.

So I think we can say that this is not respectful.

Take a read of this next one.

Pause.

If you need to.

So we've got an appropriate subject today in class, I guess, that's giving them a clue about what the email's about and this is from a teacher to a learner.

Okay, it says the work that you produced today in my class was dreadful and I would rather not have you in my lessons anymore.

Do not bother turning up next time.

Now that is a really nasty thing to say to a learner as a teacher, isn't it? It's a horrible thing to say.

So it's definitely disrespectful.

Take a look at this one, pause if you need to.

So this one, again, let's take a look "Jacob's hair LOL!!" and then there's a nasty picture.

"Did you see that hair today? He looked like a scarecrow.

Here is his new school picture." And this is from a learner to another learner.

Now that is a really nasty thing to say about someone.

And especially, can you imagine if they saw that email and how hurt they might feel? So it's a really disrespectful thing to do.

Let's have a look at this one.

Pause, if you need to, take a read of it.

So we've got a good subject there, homework for Monday the 8th, that's quite clear.

And then it's got "Dear Class, This is a reminder that your homework project on volcanoes is due on Monday 8th.

Please email me if you have any questions about the activity." and "Many thanks, Mr. Hopper." Now that is a very respectful email and that is how you should be writing all of your emails.

A subject that's clear, perfect sign off at the end and a nice greeting as well, with dear class as well.

So that's a really good one from a teacher to a learner showing what a respectful email should look like.

So here's your last one to have a look at.

This is from a learner to a teacher, pause the video to have a read.

So it's a similar conversation.

This is a response to the email from before it says, "Could you let me know if we were meant to draw a diagram of a volcano or just write about them?" And it's got a lovely start, so "Dear Mr. Hopper" and a nice ending, "Thank you, Sunny." So that's a really good example of a respectful email that you could send a teacher because it's not nasty and it's just asking an honest question and it's making sure that you've understood the homework.

So that's a perfectly good email to send to a teacher.

So sharing documents.

When you use online software, it is often possible to share your documents with other people.

This can give them access to comment on and even edit your work.

This is a great tool for teams that work in different parts of the country, as it means that they can collaborate without being in the same room and I do this all the time for my job.

We do everything online and we put comments on each other's work to review it and we make improvements based on that feedback that we've been given.

So this is something that I, as a worker in a tech company, I'm allowed to use this all the time and I do it all the time.

So it's really important at a young age, you learn how to do this properly.

So the following slides will show you examples of a learner commenting on another learner's work.

You need to decide if the comments are respectful or not, so take a look, have a read of this one.

I think that's quite a reasonable one, did you? It's given them a nice little positive, "I like the hearts but maybe have less of them?" Someone might be a little bit hurt by that but there's nothing really quite nasty in that at all and it's quite a sensible suggestion as well for the slide.

So I think that that is quite a respectful comment to add.

"I hate green, it's a horrible colour." Well, that's more somebody's personal opinion, isn't it? And it seems a bit nasty as well, using nasty words like "I hate".

It's quite a strong word to use in a comment, so it's definitely a disrespectful one, that one.

"Use capital letters for your name." So if you look down the bottom, it's got by sally cooper-worthington and that is just a standard comment.

That's quite a useful thing to point out to somebody.

So that seems quite valid and respectful to me.

"I think your dog is ugly." Oh, that is horrible! Okay, that is a really, really nasty comment and you should definitely not make comments like that on somebody's work.

"Try to keep it simple.

Perhaps have the dog as a larger image." So is that one a good one, or a bad one? Yeah, that's a sensible one, isn't it? So try to keep it simple.

Yeah, that's really sensible for slideshows, to keep things simple and try to have a larger image because the dog is quite a cute one, isn't it? So having that as a large image on the screen is quite a good one, too.

"I would make the title of the presentation larger so that it stands out." Again, that's a sensible comment to give to somebody, so we can have nasty comments but they are not worth anything and they are nasty and they're not helpful to the person that has made the work but we can give people constructive feedback, pointing out things that could be improved without being nasty and you can see that with those comments that we've just looked up.

So in lesson one, we talked about gaming and social media.

These are places where you can communicate online.

Why is it important to be respectful whilst using these platforms? And I want you to reflect on this, so write this down, please and pause the video.

Great, the following slides show scenarios that could happen on different social platforms. Decide if they're respectful or not.

So let's have a look.

A group of friends are building a village in their online world.

One friend does not like how their other friend has built the roof on a house.

They delete it and build a different one.

So is that respectful or not respectful? It's not respectful, is it? It's not respectful to delete somebody else's work and you could offer to help and you can provide some feedback.

Maybe have you tried doing this instead? And that would be a perfectly good conversation to have but to just go ahead and delete it is a really nasty and disrespectful thing to do.

So let's look at this next one.

A friend falls over at school and their classmates take a picture of it.

The photograph is shared online.

You think the photo is funny, so you like and share the photograph.

So is this respectful or is this disrespectful? It's disrespectful.

You shouldn't like and share things that might be embarrassing to your friends online and it's really inappropriate to do so.

So in this situation, I would ask the person who posted the picture to take it down and get rid of it.

And maybe even report it to a trusted adult, if it was one of those things that you're really sensitive about and needed to get rid of.

So it's really, definitely a disrespectful thing to do.

A player allows their best friend to visit their island that they have been building for over a year.

the best friend cuts down all of their trees and takes their fruit.

So is this respectful or disrespectful? It's definitely disrespectful.

If somebody is trusting you enough to go into their world, on their online game and especially one that they've been building for such a long time, then the worst thing you can do is destroy it in any way.

And you should certainly be having conversations with your friend before you do anything really, in terms of getting rid of things.

It might be an objective to cut down some trees, to build a house or something like that and you're working together to do it and that's absolutely fine.

But to just go ahead and delete everything without talking to your friend is a really nasty and disrespectful thing to do.

So here's another one.

Your favourite celebrity shares a blog post about the effects of racism on the youth today.

You do not read the blog but you like it and share it anyway.

Now this is something that happens quite a lot.

Do you think it's respectful or disrespectful? This is a grey area and the reason it's a grey area is because you don't know what is in the article and that's where the grey area is.

'Cause sometimes celebrities and just normal, average people can just like and share posts without actually reading the article.

And actually, if you read the article, there could be something quite hurtful in that article that's quite nasty.

And if you've liked and shared it without realising, 'cause you've thought, oh, I trust this celebrity.

I believe everything they say, they can't possibly put anything horrible on there and you just like, and share it, then you could actually get in trouble for that, for liking and sharing, 'cause it's making you look like a nasty person if you shared some hateful information.

So if something like this does happen when you decide to use social media, you should always make sure that you read the article before you like and share it and make sure that you agree with what has been written in there and that you're happy with those views, because otherwise you could come across looking like quite a nasty person and that's not what you want to do.

So your digital footprint is a record of everything that you do online.

So your searches, likes, comments, shares, orders and your uploads.

Everything that you do online is monitored in some way.

And these are just some of the different ways.

There's other ways too.

So if you're in school, then everything you do on your network in that school can be monitored by the network technicians.

If you're on social media, everything can be monitored by those social media companies and people can try and get access to them, like the police as well, the information that's on there.

So it's not always private, even though when you do set it to private, you think, well nobody can see this.

Actually the social media companies can and the police can get access to it, if the social media sites have given them permission to.

On the gaming communities as well, you need to be respectful on there because you can have that monitored and if you don't act respectfully on gaming sites, you can actually get banned from those gaming sites, so it's important to consider what you're doing.

Your internet service provider tracks absolutely everything that goes through the internet service provider.

So anything you're going on at home, or if you're using a mobile phone as well, all of that can be tracked.

And again, your parents and carers, they may possibly have set up tracking on your system and it might send them reports every week about what websites you've been visiting and things like that.

So there are lots of different ways that you can be monitored online.

And this is to keep you safe and keep other people safe.

So don't see it as spying or snooping in that way.

It is to keep you safe and keep others safe.

That is the main point of it.

So it's important that again, be really careful about what you're posting 'cause it's not going to disappear and people can find it.

Even if you delete a post on social media, the social media companies can still get access to that deleted message, so it's really, really important to think before you click and before you send information.

So I want you to pause the video and think about a respect charter.

What I'd like you to do is create a respect charter for online communication.

This is a list of all the things that users should do in order to be respectful online.

Share it with your classmates, if you can.

Fantastic, so if you'd like to, please ask your parent or carer to share your work on Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter, tagging @OakNational and #LearnWithOak.

We'd really love to see your respect charters that you have done and share them with the world on those platforms. So please join in, if you can.

Well done.

I hope again that you've picked up some good tips in this lesson to take you forward, so you can become a much more respectful user online.

And I'll see you soon.