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

Today's lesson is called Understanding Who We Can Interact With Online, and it fits into our unit called Our Online Lives.

How do I decide who to trust online? In today's lesson, we're going to be talking a little bit about some content that some people might find upsetting, so 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 speak to a trusted adult.

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

By the end of today's lesson, you'll be able to explain how to decide who to interact with online.

Before we get started with today's learning, 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're 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 think, what they feel, or what they've experienced.

Andeep says we need to respect each other's privacy, and that means we are 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 are now going to go through the keywords for today's lesson.

As we go through today's lesson, these words are gonna pop up multiple times, so it's really important that we have a good understanding of what each word means.

Our first key word is online stranger, this is someone that we do not know offline.

Personal information, this is facts and information about ourselves that are sensitive and private.

And friend request, this means being asked to be someone's friend online.

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

Today's lesson is split into three learning cycles.

The first learning cycle is called who can we meet online? The second learning cycle is called what can we share with people online? And our last learning cycle is called how might someone encourage us to share? We are now going to make a start on our first learning cycle, who can we meet online? When we go online, we can meet and interact with lots of different people.

We might interact with our offline friends, for example, by playing online games together.

We can also communicate with family members or our offline friends by using the internet.

This might involve sending a message or doing a video call.

Being online can be a good way to communicate with people that we already know in real life.

Here, someone has received a message saying, "Hi! Can't wait to see you next week!" And they've replied saying, "Same here!" These two people know each other offline, so it's safe for them to communicate with each other online if their trusted adults have given permission.

There are also lots of people online that we don't know in real life.

And anyone that we meet online it's an online stranger.

We might see online strangers posting videos and photos, commenting on posts, sharing their opinions online or playing the same games as us.

But we should never interact with online strangers even if they interact with us first.

If an online stranger interacts with us, this is risky because we don't know who they are and they could cause us harm.

Here, Aisha has had a message from an online stranger saying, "Hi, what's your name?" She's making a really sensible and safe choice because she's saying, "I don't know this person, so I'm not going to message them back." Let's do a check for understanding to see how you're getting on so far.

Who is it safe to interact with online? Is it a, family members, b, online strangers, or c, offline friends? There might be more than one correct answer for this one, so think carefully.

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

Well done if you said that a and c are correct.

It is safe to interact with family members and offline friends online, but we must also make sure that we tell a trusted adult before we do this, so they can check that it is safe to do so.

Well done if you got this right.

Meeting people online is different to meeting people in real life.

When we meet people in real life, we can see what they look like.

Here Izzy is saying, "Hi, my name's Izzy!" Because she's just met Lucas and he's replied saying, "Hi, I'm Lucas!" They've met each other in real life, so they feel safe to share their name because they the other person and they can see what they look like.

But when we meet online strangers, we can never be certain they're who they say they are.

Unfortunately, they might lie or hide who they really are.

Someone online could say, "Hi, I'm Jake! I'm 12 years old." But they might not be telling the truth.

As this is an online stranger, we can't be certain that this is a person called Jake who's 12 years old.

In this situation, we would need to tell a trusted adult and we would need to not interact with this person.

Sometimes online strangers can give us personal information like their name, their age, or photos.

They might have a picture of themselves and they might say, "I'm 12 years old and I go to Oak National Academy." But there's no way that we could be certain that they're telling the truth as they are an online stranger.

No matter how much personal information they give us, if we don't know someone offline, they are an online stranger and we shouldn't interact with them.

Because we don't know them offline we can't be certain that this online stranger is a 12-year-old boy called Jake.

Here we've got someone's profile.

It's got a picture, it's got their name, their age, and where they live, and they're claiming to be a 12-year-old boy called Jake.

But because we don't know them offline, we can't be certain that they're telling the truth.

People can use fake personal information online to pretend to be someone that they're not.

For example, they could use a fake name, a fake age, a fake gender, so they could say that they're male when they're female or female when they're actually male.

They could also use a fake location and a fake photo to make it seem like they're someone they're not.

Let's do another check for understanding.

Is this statement true or false? If someone tells us their name online, we can be confident that they're telling the truth.

What do you think? Pause the video, tell the person next to you, tell me or have a think to yourself.

Well done if you said false, but why? People we meet online are online strangers.

They could be lying about or hiding who they are, so we cannot trust them.

Well done if you got this right.

Now, let's put your learning from this learning cycle into practise.

Change what Andeep and Laura are saying so they are correct.

Andeep says, "It is safe to interact with online strangers as long as they have a photo of themselves on their profile." And Laura says that, "it is not safe to talk to anyone online as everyone online is an online stranger".

Both of these statements are incorrect.

Can you change them so that they are correct? Pause the video and I look forward to seeing what you come up with.

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

Your answers could include, Andeep saying that, "It is not safe to interact with online strangers even if they have a photo of themselves on their profile.

This is because they could be using a fake photo." And Laura now says, "It is safe to talk online to people that we know offline.

This can be a good way to communicate with people that we know in real life." But remember to always ask a trusted adult to check before you do this, so that we can be confident that the person that we're speaking to is definitely the person that we know offline.

Well done for your fantastic hard work so far.

We are now going to move on to our second learning cycle.

What can we share with people online? When we talk to trusted adults in real life, we can feel comfortable sharing our personal information, which includes our name, our age, the school that we go to, photos or videos of ourselves and where we live.

But we should only share our personal information with people that we trust and who we know offline.

Here, Sofia and Jun are having a conversation.

Sofia says, "Where do you live?" And he's saying, "I live on the road next to you." Jun feels comfortable sharing some of his personal information because he trusts Sofia and he knows who she is.

But we should never share our personal information with online strangers even if they ask for it or tell us their own personal information.

Izzy reminds us that they may not be telling the truth about the personal information that they share.

Remember, they could be using a fake name, age, location, or photos.

Let's do another check for understanding.

Is this statement true or false? We should never share personal information with online strangers.

What do you think? Pause the video, 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 true that should never share our personal information with online strangers.

Well done if you got this right.

There are some things that it is usually safe to share online.

If we're talking to someone online that we also know offline, we might feel comfortable sharing our personal information.

For example, photos and videos of ourselves.

Here, Alex is saying, "I send pictures of myself to my grandma!" And it is safe for Alex to do this because his grandma is a trusted adult and his mom has said that it's okay for him to do so.

It's important to not share photos or videos of ourselves with online strangers.

This is because someone could use them to pretend to be us online.

They could also post them to other websites without us knowing, and this can allow other people to identify who we are and unfortunately this can cause us harm.

Some people choose to share with lots of different people online, for example, on social media.

They might share pictures of scenery that they like, their hobbies and interest, or an online nickname or avatar.

We should always ask a trusted adult first before we share with someone else online.

They can check that the person we are sharing with is someone that we know offline and that we are sharing safely.

Jacob reminds us that trusted adults can help us to make safe choices when sharing online.

Let's do another check for understanding.

Can you remember which of these are safe to share online? a, address, this means where we live.

b, pictures of scenery that we like or c, our online nickname or avatar.

What do you think? Pause the video, have a think.

Tell the person next to you or tell me.

There might be more than one correct answer for this one, so think carefully.

Well done if you said that b and c are correct.

It's usually safe to share pictures of scenery that we like and an online nickname or avatar, but we should remember to not share any scenery that could suggest where we live or where we go to school.

And we should remember that our online nickname should not be related to our real name.

Well done if you got this right.

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

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

For the first part of this task, I'd like you to circle the examples of information that could be shared online with people that we know offline.

For these examples, we've got name, avatar, photos of ourselves, hobbies, location, photos of scenery, and our age.

Once you've done this, I'd like you to cross out the information that should not be shared with online strangers.

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.

For the examples that could be shared online with people that we know offline, you should have circled name, avatar, photos of ourselves, hobbies, location, photos of scenery and our age, but for the information that should not be shared with online strangers, you should have crossed out name, photos of ourselves, location, and age.

Well done if you got this right.

We are now moving on to our final practise task.

How might someone encourage us to share? Everyone has the right to stay safe online and this can mean saying no to sharing information online.

Here, Aisha has had a message from an online stranger saying, "Hi, what's your name?" She is making a safe and sensible choice by saying it is not safe to share personal information with online strangers, so I'm going to say no.

She could also ignore this request and go and tell a trusted adult.

She should tell a trusted adult because she's received a message from an online stranger.

We're always in control of our personal information and we don't have to share it with anyone that we don't want to, even if they ask kindly or if we know them in real life.

Here, Lucas has had a question from someone in real life saying, "Can you tell me what school you go to? I won't tell anyone!" But Lucas is saying, "No, I don't feel comfortable sharing that." It is always okay to not share our personal information with someone.

Our personal information is for us to decide who we share it with and that we are sharing safely, but we should always remember that it is never safe to share personal information with an online stranger.

Online strangers can trick us into sharing information online.

They could use our information to cause harm, for example, by messaging others pretending to be us.

Sofia reminds us that this is why we should never share our personal information with online strangers, and if we have, we should tell a trusted adult straight away so that they can help.

Let's do a check for understanding.

Is this statement true or false? If someone asks us kindly to share information online, it is always okay to say yes.

What do you think? Pause the video, tell the person next to you, tell me or have a think to yourself.

Well done if you said this is false, but why? Even if someone asks us kindly to share information, we don't need to say yes.

We should never share our personal information with online strangers.

Well done if you got this right.

Someone might encourage us to share online by giving us lots of compliments and this is something called flattery.

Here someone online is saying, "You are such a great friend.

Can you tell me where you live?" This is an example of someone giving us a compliment because they want us to trust them more so that we're more likely to share something with them.

If someone that we don't know offline gives us lots of compliments, they might be trying to trick us to find out our personal information.

If an online stranger starts to give us lots of compliments, we should tell a trusted adult so that they can help.

They can help us to block and report the account, especially if they're asking for our personal information.

Let's have a think about what Alex says.

Alex says that, "Anyone who is kind to us online are our friends so we can trust them." What do you think? Pause the video, tell the person next to you, tell me or have a think to yourself.

Well done if you said that Alex is incorrect.

People online can use flattery to trick us into giving them personal information.

This can cause us harm.

Some people online can also make us feel guilty for not sharing information with them online or for not accepting an online invitation like a friend request.

Friend requests allow us to message someone and to see someone's photos and posts if they have a private account.

Some people can try to make us feel guilty for not accepting their friend request and this is never okay.

Someone online is saying, if you were a kind person, you'd accept my friend request and you'd tell me your real name.

This is an example of someone trying to make you feel guilty for not accepting a friend request and for not sharing your personal information.

It is our right online to only accept friend requests from people that we know offline and people who we trust.

If someone ever tries to make us feel guilty for not accepting their friend request, we should always tell a trusted adult.

We can also receive online invitations to join groups or group chats.

Online strangers could also use flattery or make us feel guilty so that we feel like we should join them.

Andeep reminds us that, "We should always tell a trusted adult if we receive a friend request from someone that we don't know online, or an invite to a group or group chat." A trusted adult can block and report the account so that we stay safe.

Let's do another check for understanding.

You're doing a brilliant job so far, so keep it up.

What should we do if we receive a friend request from someone that we do not know? a, accept it as it is a good thing to make friends, b, message them to ask who they are, or c, tell a trusted adult straight away.

What do you think? Pause the video, tell the person next to you, tell me or have a think to yourself well done if you said that c is correct, If we receive a friend request from someone that we don't know, we should tell a trusted adult straight away.

It's really important to never accept a friend request from someone that we don't know and we shouldn't interact with online strangers, even if it's to ask who they are.

We should always tell a trusted adult straight away so that they can help to keep us safe.

We are now moving on to our final practise task.

Well done for your hard work and keep it up.

For this practise task, I'd like you to explain how each online message is encouraging someone to share personal information and what the person who receives it should do.

The example messages are, "Why haven't you accepted my invite to join the group chat.

If you were any fun, you'd accept it." The other online message says, "You seem so kind! What's your name? Can you accept my friend request?" 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.

For the message saying, "Why haven't you accepted my invite to join the group chat? If you were any fun, you'd accept it." You might have said that this is making someone feel guilty.

The person should tell a trusted adult so that they can block and report the account.

For the second message saying, "You seem so kind! What's your name? Can you accept my friend request?" You might have said that this is an example of flattery and that this person should tell a trusted adult so that they can block and report the account.

Well done if you got this right.

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

Anyone we meet online that we don't know offline is an online stranger.

We should never share personal information with online strangers as this could cause us harm.

Everyone has the right to feel safe online and say no to sharing any information online.

People can trick us to get information online, for example, by giving them lots of compliments or making someone feel guilty.

We should always tell a trusted adult if we receive a friend request or if we have shared something online that makes us feel worried.

In today's lesson, we've talked about some topics that you might have some more questions about, or you might have found that you've now got some worries.

It's really important that if you have any worries or concerns about anything that we've talked about in today's lesson, 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 today.

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