Hello, my name is Miss Willow, and I'm going to be guiding you through today's learning.

Today's lesson is called Communicating Online Safely.

And it fits into our unit called Our Online Lives.

How do I decide who to trust online? During this lesson we're going to be talking about some topics that some people might find uncomfortable.

For this reason, we recommend that you have an adult with you for this lesson.

If at any point you do become upset or uncomfortable, it's really important that you close the screen and that you go and speak to a trusted adult.

Okay, let's make a start on today's learning.

By the end of today's lesson, you will be able to explain how to stay safe if you communicate online.

Before we get started, we need to go over some ground rules that help to make sure that everyone stays safe and comfortable throughout today's learning.

Laura says that we need to listen to others.

That means we are not going to interrupt other people if they're speaking.

Jacob says we need to not have any judgement.

That means we're not going to judge other people for what they say, what they feel, or what they've experienced.

Andeep says we need to respect each other's privacy.

That means we're not going to ask anyone any personal questions as this can make some people feel uncomfortable.

And Izzy says that we can choose our level of participation.

That means it's up to us how much we want to join in.

We're now going to go through the keywords for today's lesson.

These are gonna pop up multiple times throughout today's lesson, so it's really important that we have a good understanding of what each word means.

Communicate.

This means to talk to someone using text, words, images or videos.

Social media.

This is websites and apps that are used to share words and images with other people.

Information.

This means words and numbers that means something.

And personal.

This is something about us that is sensitive and private.

As we go through today's lesson, keep an eye out for these keywords and see if you can remember what they mean.

Today's lesson is split into three learning cycles.

The first learning cycle is called Is everyone communicating online? The second learning cycle is called What are the risks of communicating online? And finally, the last learning cycle is called What are the rules for communicating online? Let's make a start on the first learning cycle.

Is everyone communicating online? Lots of people around the world communicate with each other online every day.

People all around the globe use different languages to communicate with each other online.

People can communicate online in lots of different ways.

They can send messages, they can send photos or videos.

Many people use social media to communicate online.

Social media is often a free and quick way to communicate with other people, and many people also find it fun to use too.

But most children don't use social media, but they can communicate in other ways online.

Some children might send messages to an offline friend or family member on an app that isn't social media.

Someone might send a message saying, "Do you want to come to mine after school tomorrow?" And someone's replied saying, "Yes, please.

I'll ask my dad." In this circumstance, it's okay for these children to be communicating with each other online because they're not using social media and they know each other offline.

We can guess from these messages that they are in the same class at school together.

Some children might communicate with each other when they play games.

And this might involve sending messages or joining a voice call with offline friends.

However, many children will only communicate offline and this is okay.

Everyone is different and prefers to communicate in different ways.

Andeep says, "Would you like to go to the park this Saturday?" And Sofia is saying, "Yes, that sounds great." They're communicating offline by just talking to each other when they've met up.

Let's do a check for understanding to see how you're getting on so far.

Is this statement true or false? Most children use social media to communicate with their friends.

What do you think? Pause the video.

Tell the person next to you, tell me or have a think to yourself.

Is this statement true or false? Well done if you said that it is false.

But why? Most children don't use social media.

They might communicate with their friends on different online apps or games, and communicate offline too.

Well done if you said this or something similar.

Social media platforms often have age restrictions.

This means that only people over a certain age should use the website or app.

For example, most social media platforms require you to be over the age of 13 to have an account.

This age restriction is another reason why most children are not on social media.

Age restrictions for social media are in place because social media is not always safe for children.

Before downloading a new app or creating a social media account, it's really important to check the age restriction first to make sure that you are old enough to use it.

Sofia has seen an app that says that it's for 13 plus only.

She's making a really safe and sensible choice because she's saying, "I'm not 13 yet, so I'll find a different way to communicate with my friends." If you are not sure about the age restriction of an app, you can always ask a trusted adult to help you.

Trusted adults can also help if you'd like to find a way to communicate with your friends without using social media or going online.

Andeep says, "I prefer to have a phone call with my friends or speak to them in person." Remember, that everyone is different when it comes to communicating and everyone will prefer to communicate in different ways.

Let's do another check for understanding.

Can you remember what is the age restriction to have an account for most social media apps? Is it A, 5+.

B, 7+.

Or C, 13+.

What do you think? Tell the person next to you.

Tell me or have a think to yourself.

Well done.

If you said that the correct answer is C, 13+.

Most social media apps require you to be at least 13 in order to be able to use the app.

Let's put your learning from this learning cycle into practise.

I'd like you to circle the correct statements and correct any incorrect statements.

The first statement is, most social media has an age restriction of 10 years old.

The next statement is, trusted adults can help us find safe ways to communicate with our friends.

The next statement is, we should always check the age restriction of an app before we download it.

And the last statement is, most children use social media to communicate.

Can you circle the statements that are correct and change any incorrect statements so that they are now correct.

Pause the video and I look forward to seeing your answers in a couple of minutes.

Okay, let's have a look and see what you might have said.

You should have circled two statements because they're correct.

The correct statements are we should always check the age restriction of an app before we download it.

And the other correct statement is trusted adults can help us find safe ways to communicate with our friends.

There were two incorrect statements that might now look something like this.

Most social media has an age restriction of 13 years old, and most children do not use social media to communicate with their friends.

Well done if you got this right.

We're now moving on to our second learning cycle.

You are doing a fantastic job so far, so keep it up.

Our second learning cycle is called What other risks of communicating online? Communicating online can be a fun way to keep in touch with friends and family that we know offline.

It can be a fun way to build relationships with people.

And it can be a fun way to learn and spread information.

However, communicating online is also risky.

We need to know what information is safe to share.

For example, our name, age, hobbies and photos.

Which of those pieces of information are safe to share? And how do we know? And we also need to know who we can share safely with.

But no matter how safely we share and communicate online, there are always risks.

By learning about these risks and about how we can share and communicate online safely, we can help to keep ourselves and others safe online.

Let's do another check for understanding.

Can you fill in the blanks to show why communicating online can be fun? Tell the person next to you.

Tell me or have a think to yourself.

Well done if you said that the missing words are relationships and information.

Your answers should be that communicating online can be fun because we can keep in touch with friends and family, build relationships with people, and learn and spread information.

Well done if you got this right.

Some information is too personal to share online.

This means that it shouldn't be sent in a message and it shouldn't be posted on social media, even if we think that only people that we know offline can see it.

To stay safe, we should always keep our personal information private.

When we give someone our personal information, we add to a jigsaw puzzle which allows people to know who we are.

We should never share our personal information online.

This includes things like our name, our age, our passwords, our location, which means where we are, where we go to school, or photos or videos of ourselves.

It's usually safe to share information which can't be used to identify us.

For example, our hobbies and interests.

Simple facts like our favourite colour, or photos that we've taken that don't show ourselves or where we live.

Now let's do another check for understanding.

Which of these are examples of personal information which should not be shared online.

Is it A, the school we go to.

B, our hobbies and interests.

Or C, are passwords.

There's more than one correct answer for this question, so make sure you think carefully.

Well done If you said that A and C are correct.

Some personal information which shouldn't be shared online are the school that we go to and our passwords.

Well done If you got this right.

If we share personal information online, this could cause us harm.

Someone online could pretend to be us online, take money from us, or share our personal information with other people without us realising.

They could also harm or threaten to harm us.

If someone pretends to be us online, they could post things online that we don't agree with or things that aren't true.

They could also use our personal information, for example, our passwords to access our money.

If we have shared our personal information, we don't always know who has seen it.

Here, Emily has shared a picture of herself with two friends, but those two people could share Emily's photo without her permission and without her knowing.

Because of this, we should always remember that people could share our personal information without our permission and without us knowing.

Someone online could also harm or threaten to harm us if they have our personal information.

And this can feel scary or worrying.

Laura reminds us that trusted adults can always help us if we're worried about sharing or communicating online.

Let's do another check for understanding.

Is this statement true or false? People can only share our personal information online if we give permission.

What do you think? Tell the person next to you.

Tell me or have a think to yourself.

Well done if you said false, but why? Once we have shared personal information online, anyone could share it without our permission or without us knowing.

Well done if you got this right.

We are now moving on to our second practise task.

Well done for your fantastic hard work so far.

For this task, I'd like you to look at this social media profile.

Here, we've got a photo and it says underneath, Mateo, 16, Liverpool.

I'd like you to identify at least three pieces of personal information that this profile shares online and I'd like you to explain to the person next to you two risks of them being shared.

Pause the video and I look forward to seeing your answers in a couple of minutes.

Okay, let's have a look and see what your answers could have been.

You might have identified the personal information as the photo, so what they look like, the name, the age, and the location.

This is all personal information.

You might have said that the risks of sharing this personal information were that someone could pretend to be Mateo online.

They could take money from his account.

They could share his personal information with other people without Mateo's permission and without him knowing.

Or they could harm him or threaten to harm him.

Well done if you got this right.

We're now moving on to our final learning cycle.

What are the rules for communicating online? We can follow some rules to help us communicate safely online.

We should always think carefully about what we share online to make sure that we are keeping ourselves and those around us safe.

For example, it would be safe to share our hobbies and our drawings, but it won't be safe to communicate our name or age online as remember that this is personal information.

We should only communicate online with people that we know and trust offline.

Here, Sofia is communicating online with Aisha.

And Sofia says, "I only communicate online with people that I know offline from school or from clubs." This would be an example of safely communicating with someone online.

We should always tell a trusted adult if we're communicating with someone for the first time.

They can check that the person is who they say they are and not someone pretending to be our offline friend.

Let's do another check for understanding.

Why is it important to check with a trusted adult before communicating with someone new online? Is it A, so they can make sure that the person online is kind and friendly.

Is it B, so that they can make sure that the person is who they say they are.

Or C, so they can make sure the person online is on the right digital device.

What do you think? Tell the person next to you.

Tell me or have a think to yourself.

Well done if you said that B is correct.

We should always check with a trusted adult before communicating with someone new online so that they can make sure that the person is who they say they are.

Well done if you got this correct.

When we communicate online, we should always be kind and think about how what we say or share could affect how the other person feels.

Bullying or being unkind online is never okay and it can affect someone's feelings just as much as it can offline.

We should always ignore someone if they ask for personal information, send friend requests, or tell us to do something online that we don't want to do.

If this happens, we should put down our digital device and we should speak to a trusted adult straight away so that they can help.

It is never unkind to ignore someone if they're making us feel uncomfortable online.

It's really important that we keep ourselves safe and sometimes this can mean ignoring someone online.

If we feel worried, upset, or uncomfortable online, we should always ask for help from a trusted adult.

They can help us to block, report and delete an account so that we can be safe and have fun online.

Let's do another check for understanding.

Is this statement true or false? It is not unkind to ignore someone online if they're asking us to do something or share our personal information.

What do you think? Tell the person next to you.

Tell me or have a think to yourself.

Well done if you said that this is true.

It is not unkind to ignore someone online if they're making us feel uncomfortable.

Sometimes we need to do this to keep ourselves safe.

We're now moving on to our final practise task.

I'd like you to fill in the blanks for each rule to show your understanding of how to communicate safely online.

Read the statements and look at where the gaps are.

Can you think of which word should go in each gap? Pause the video and I look forward to seeing your answers in a couple of minutes.

Okay, let's go through each statement and see which words you might have said.

Your answers might look like.

We should think carefully about what we share online.

We should not share personal information online.

We should only communicate with people that we know and trust offline.

We should always check with a trusted adult before communicating with someone online.

We should always be kind online.

We should ignore someone if they ask us to do something that we don't want to do online.

And finally, if we feel worried online, we should always ask for help from a trusted adult.

Well done if you got this right or if you had something similar.

We're now going to summarise the key learning from today's lesson.

In today's lesson, we've learned that most children do not use social media, but they may communicate with each other on other platforms. Most social media websites have age restrictions, which are usually 13 years and over.

This is to help keep children safe.

Some information is too personal to share online.

For example, our name, address, and the school that we go to.

And we should always think carefully before sharing something online to make sure that we are keeping ourselves and the people around us safe.

We should speak to a trusted adult if we need help online.

During today's lesson, we've talked about some topics that some people might find tricky.

If you have any worries or concerns about anything from today's lesson, it's really important that you speak to a trusted adult.

There are also some organisations on the screen who are there to support you.

Well done for your fantastic hard work this lesson.

I'm really proud of you and I hope to see you again soon.