Lesson video

Hello, my name is Mrs. Ford.

Welcome to lesson two of our unit Online and the media: Rights, responsibilities and keeping safe.

In today's lesson, we are going to explore the rights and responsibilities of being a digital citizen, how to uphold our rights and those of others, and what to do if any of our rights are breached.

For today's lesson, you will need an exercise book or some paper and a pen.

You may choose to have an alternative colour pen to improve your work following feedback given in this video.

Before you press play on today's video, you will have been asked to complete an introductory quiz.

If you haven't done that yet, please leave the video, complete the quiz, and then pop back in.

In today's lesson we're going to find out what we mean by the term digital citizen.

What is a digital citizen? We're also going to look at the rights and responsibilities that we have online.

Following on from that we're going to learn how we can uphold our rights online, both for ourselves and for the people, and then you will be completing an exit quiz.

What keywords do you need for today's lesson? You need to be aware of what timing when I'm talking about the term digital citizen.

As you can see from the screen, a digital citizen is someone who has an identity on the internet.

If you've ever used any website, application, online gaming, you've watched TV online, then you are a digital citizen.

When you use the internet, you become part of what we call a global community.

Global means across the whole world.

You have the responsibility to engage with the online community, all of the other digital citizens the people who use the internet across the world, you have the responsibility to engage with them appropriately and sensibly.

Being a responsible citizen means that you should know what your rights are.

However, wherever there are rights, come responsibilities.

Not only should you know what your right is and how you are protected, you should also use your responsibilities to help to keep other people protected too.

You need to be able to protect yourself.

Being responsible means protecting your privacy, you're making sure that you are safe, and thinking about other people's privacies and safeties as well.

You need to behave lawfully.

There are laws surrounding how you use the internet.

It is a crime to hack, to steal or to illegally download material.

It is also illegal to damage other people's identities, we'll find out more about that later, their work or property online.

You also need to think about what you are doing.

Think about your online activities, and not only how they affect you, also other people that you know, and the wider community whether that's local community or the global community that we spoke about earlier.

Pause the video and think about the activities that you complete online.

Do you spend time wondering about your rights? Whether you are protecting yourself, whether your behaviour is lawful, or whether your behaviour might impact on other people? What rights and responsibilities do you have to be a digital citizen.

As a digital citizen, we all have rights and responsibilities, and they are similar if not the same as those that we share offline in the normal world that is not based on the internet.

Examples of some of the rights that you have both on and offline include the right to privacy, and also the right to security to being safe and secure.

Let's talk this through through some examples.

So here is Mohammed.

Mohammed is just signed up to a new social media platform.

When he had almost finished the sign-up process, the platform then says to Mohammed, would you like to review your settings? This allows him to make sure that only the friends he allows to follow him can see his posts.

What do you think his responsibility is? So the right here is to privacy but what do you think his responsibility is? Not only is it a right to protect your privacy and to keep you safe, but it is also Mohammed's responsibility to protect himself.

You cannot expect that every platform will be able to keep you secure without you checking the settings, and the terms and conditions which will explain to you how to keep yourself safe.

Here's another example.

Chelsea has been set a research projects in history.

We were talking about how we use research online to help us with our studies in lesson one.

Chelsea's project is a local history, but she doesn't have time to go to a local library before the project is due in.

So she decides to use the internet to help.

It is Chelsea's rights to access knowledge.

This is another right that we have both on and offline.

But it is also Chelsea's responsibility to check that the knowledge is accurate.

Sometimes the internet spreads misinformation and can cause people to be confused, or to share information that is completely incorrect.

As responsible digital citizens, you should know that the information you are sharing is legitimate and is truth.

In order to do this, Chelsea should avoid using only one source of information.

She needs to look for other trusted sources as well to ensure that her findings are true.

We're going to look at two further examples.

Once we've looked at the rights in each example, I'm going to ask you to try to identify the responsibilities that must also be in place.

So let's look at example three.

Zoya has had a fall-out with a best friend from school.

Following the argument, the friend has started sending hurtful messages to Zoya.

She's feeling really upset about them.

Zoya has the right to security and protection from messages like this.

But I want you to think what are Zoya's responsibilities? Pause the video and have a think about that now please.

So here's some feedback for example three.

Here are some of the responsibilities that Zoya has.

She needs to keep a record of the messages.

This might be that she'll screenshot the messages, then she will need to tell a trusted adult.

This could be telling a parents or a carer, it could be a staff member at school, or it might be other trusted adults that she has.

One key thing you need to know is that Zoya should refrain and resist the urge to reply.

It's so easy that if somebody is sending us hurtful messages to want to send one back.

However this does not protect the rights of the other person and also it goes against the responsibilities of Zoya.

Zoya should be showing how important it is not to hurt people online.

And if she sends a hurtful message back that goes against everything that she is trying to do.

I would also suggest that Zoya blocks her ex-friend's number or profile until things are sorted out.

It's really important because these messages could keep coming through, or Zoya may also have more of an urge to want to respond to things in a negative way.

Finally after telling a trusted adult and making sure that everything is blocked, she can report the behaviour.

This may be to school if it's something that's impacting in school, or it may be to this platforms that are being used to send this information.

The platforms may decide to remove posts or messages, or even to give a warning to Zoya's friend to tell her that this is inappropriate.

Here's John, so John is a member of a social media chat for form-group.

Another member of the class has posted in the chat to ask for everybody for their opinions on the new member of the form.

John has the right to freedom of expression.

He also has the right to engage and interact with posts on social media.

Well, what do you think John's responsibilities are? Pause the video and have a think about that please.

Let's have a look of some feedback from this.

John has the responsibility to respect all the people and their feelings.

Thinking about this chat, there are 29 people on this chat, all choosing to speak about one person.

Would the person being spoken about be happy with this conversation? If they read all of the comments back, how would it make them feel? John also has the responsibility to remind people to be kind and not to participate any behaviour that may hurt other people.

Is it fair for people to be commenting on somebody's personality, somebody's work, somebody's clothes, what they look like? John should be reminding people to be kind and that's his responsibility to maintain his right to feel safe and his right to privacy as well online.

Well let's have a look at freedom of expression and something called defamation.

We'll find out about that in a little while.

But what do we mean? Okay sometimes you will hear this term freedom of expression.

And it's a right that we have as human beings on and offline.

But what do we mean by this term? It means that you're allowed to say what you think, it means that you're allowed to express your thoughts in peaceful protest, it gives you the right to agree or disagree about those in power, it gives you one of the most powerful things which is to demand a better future in a better world, you're allowed to share information with other people, and it gives you protection to do all of these things without fear of illegal interference.

If you are taking part in a peaceful protest and you are following the laws around that, you are free to do that and you will not be in a place where you might be fearful of what might happen to you because of that.

On the other side of freedom of expression is to keep in mind the idea of defamation.

We have to use our rights of freedom of expression what it has to be to tell truths.

It is illegal, it is an offence under law to say things that are untrue or damaging to somebody's reputation, and this is what we mean by defamation.

It is the act of damaging the good reputation of someone.

It might be through oral communications or speaking badly about somebody, or written communication so it could be in a letter, it could be in a newspaper, magazine, or anything posted online.

And it includes presenting an untruth as though it is fact.

If you damage the good reputation of someone through untruths, they may start legal proceedings.

They may take you to court because you've told untruth and it has damaged their good reputation.

Let's have a look at a couple of examples here.

So John has had an argument with his dad.

He's feeling really angry and he takes all his emotions out by writing a post on social media, explaining what's happening and how bad he's being treated by his dad.

He's getting loads of messages from people all saying that they feel really sorry for him.

He's starting to feel like I feel a bit better, and he's enjoying people just telling them how much they care for him and how much they support his side of the argument.

Because he's starting to enjoy it, he exaggerates it a bit, and he says that his dad has been treating him really badly and includes wrongly that his dad once hit him in an argument.

Why is that wrong? Because this has never happened.

Is this defamation? Have a think about that.

Did you say, yes? If you gave, you will be correct.

He is telling an untruth which can damage his dad's good reputation.

So I'll look at that Barry the builder.

So, a couple decided they wanted a new extension building popped on the back of their house.

They meet up with a range of different building companies and finally settled on Barry the builder.

He has promised that his company can work with tight deadline.

So the couple trust Barry and they employed his team.

Unfortunately, the team have gone against their word, they've been queen late many times and they've been taking too many breaks when they are there.

This has led the company to being six weeks behind in their work.

And the couple were very upset.

They've met with Barry a few times so he said they'll speed up.

Well, they continue to come late, and continuing to take too many breaks.

The couple find Barry's social media profile and post on it a poor review, warning others from using him.

Is this defamation? Have a little think for me.

If you said, no, you will be correct.

If everything the couple is posted in the review is truth, then it is not defamation.

If they exaggerate this and add things in that haven't happened, this would be defamation.

But at the moment this situation is that it's not defamation.

How do you uphold your rights online then? To uphold your own personal rights, you need to refrain hold back from sharing your personal details and also the details of others.

This keeps you safe.

You also need to keep your passwords to yourself.

If you tell your friend the password, you should change it immediately.

This keeps your social media pages, all the websites that you have passwords to safe for only you to use.

You should also ensure that you have adjusted your security settings to the highest possible.

The reason security settings are there are to protect you.

So make sure that you use them and make sure that you block anything that might upset you.

You need to protect your digital image as well as your real life image.

Think about profile pictures.

Does the profile picture that you have chosen really show the person you are in real life? If your grandparents or people, teachers, for example or parents saw the pictures that you are posting online, would they be proud? Are you showing the best person that you are or are you showing something that might cause risk to you? You should also avoid strangers online.

Just like in the normal world offline, we wouldn't walk up to a stranger and just start talking to them and showing them pictures of yourself and explaining where you're going to go on Saturday, you shouldn't be doing that online.

There are more risks from strangers online, I would argue than there are offline.

Especially if you allow them to follow your social media pages.

Social media pages and websites have age appropriate ratings.

They are there to keep you safe and to ensure that the risks are reduced for you, and that your rights can be upheld as a child.

Do not use social media or websites that are aimed at a higher age than you.

They are there for a reason.

You also need to check the terms and conditions of a website that you use.

So you might use a website and it will include how to keep yourself safe and what to do if you don't feel safe.

This is in the terms and conditions.

So have a read of those first before you fully sign into a website.

That's how to uphold your rights.

But how do you uphold the rights of others? Here's a big list.

There's another slide as well of things that you should not do.

You should not share other people's personal information.

If they choose to share that, that's fine.

It doesn't keep them safe, but they're choosing to do that.

But it is not your right to share that on their behalf.

Just like in normal life you shouldn't be harassing or bullying anyone, just because it's online, doesn't make it okay.

You shouldn't share hurtful things about other people.

Thinking back to our example, would it be okay for somebody in a form where there's 29 people talking about somebody who isn't on that group, to hear those things, to find out that those hurtful things are being said if they are hurtful.

These things can include posts, comments, memes, videos.

Think about what pain you can cause to others and make sure you don't do that.

You also shouldn't share your opinion in a way that could cause distress to people.

Think about how you are saying things.

If you wouldn't say that face to face to somebody, don't put it online.

It's just as hurtful and just as upsetting or maybe more 'cause it can be shared more often.

You also shouldn't abuse other people's intellectual property online.

If somebody has created something, has written something, has created piece of artwork, and you want to use that, you need to ask for their permission.

Can I copy and paste that into my work? And do you need to sites where you have got that from.

Where does that piece of information come from.

Don't show it off as your work because they have taken the time to create that.

You should not share information without cross-referencing to check it's accuracy.

We don't want to spread misinformation.

And it is the right of people to get information and knowledge.

However, if you are just reading one piece and thinking that it's the truth, and then sharing that, you could be sharing misinformation which is not upholding the rights of other people.

Check its accuracy, check that it's truthful, before you post.

Finally, you shouldn't ignore anything that worries or upsets you.

We have biological consequences to something that upsets us.

You might feel like your chest is a bit tight, or like you've got butterflies in your tummy, or you might feel a bit sick about things, or it might be something that stays in your head.

This is your instinct telling you that something isn't right.

Trust your instinct.

If you think isn't right, you have to report it.

That protects not only your rights but others from also seeing these things.

Give me true or false just to get us going.

That was a lot of information, well done for listening.

So in order to uphold your rights online, you also have responsibilities to behave appropriately when using the internet.

I'll give you a couple of seconds to think about that.

That one is, true, well done if you've got that.

Wherever we have rights in life, there are always responsibilities that we most follow to uphold those rights, true or false? It is okay to share your friend's phone number online when you have had an argument.

Have a think about that.

If you say false you're correct.

You should never share any personal information online whether that is your information or someone else's, it's personal for a reason.

Next one, true or false, it's okay to add people who are friends with your parents or carers online? It must be safe if your parents or carers let them view their social media page? Have a think about that one.

You're correct if you went for false.

It is always recommended that you seek permission from your parents or carers before you add people to social media pages.

They will know what is the safest thing for you to do.

When your parents or carers are friends to their social media pages, they will be assessing their risks to them, not your risk.

Risks between adults and children are very different.

Your parents or carers might be upset if you are adding other adults to your page.

Always check with your parents or carer before you add somebody.

They can assess the risk and make sure that you are more safe when you are using social media.

Right, so we've looked at rights, we've looked at responsibilities, now we need to find out what happens when your rights are breached.

There are some things called digital reporting tools.

And these are tools that social media platforms have built-in.

They are reporting systems to allow you to report any breach of your rights and the instructions of how to do this are on each platform.

Even if he can't find it, if you go into a video searching engine, you will be able to find ways to search how to report.

So you can put in, how do I report on, and then your social media platform, and that will be a video that will guide you through that.

You can also use a normal search engine and read how to do that.

All of your rights are protected in the Malicious Communications Act.

So that was a law that was passed in 1988 and this protects your rights.

You will be able to select a post or a profile.

And there will be an option to report.

It's also, I would advise highly beneficial that once you've made a report of a post or a profile, you then block the user that you have made that report about.

That will prevent you from seeing any of the content that would upsets you again.

When you do report something using these digital reporting tools, you'll often be asked what category it should be filed under.

It might ask you, is the post suspicious? Is it spam? Are you getting lots of adverts that you don't want to see? Is it abusive or harmful? Is the post inappropriate? Or is it misinformation? Now depending on how you categorise your complaint, your reports, will depend on the speed in which this is taken.

So abusive or harmful, or misinformation or inappropriate, might be resolved quite quickly compared to spam adverts.

The risk is higher and so the social media companies will ensure that they are dealt with first.

We're going to look at task now.

Your task is to create a guide to inform year six pupils so that she target audience year six pupils of their rights and responsibilities.

The purpose is to explain and inform rights and responsibilities of being a digital citizen.

The format of this will be a formal leaflet.

Because it's formal, you should be sure that you use appropriate and formal language in your leaflet.

You must include, what it means to be a digital citizen, the rights that we have as digital citizens, the responsibilities that come with those rights, and what someone can do if they feel that their rights are being breached.

Pause the video and do that now please.

Now that you've completed your leaflet, I want you to have a think about the key things that you've included.

You're going to go back in a second and see if you can improve your work.

Did you include the main three rights that we've explained today? Freedom of expression, the right to privacy, and the right to feel safe.

Did you explore the responsibilities that come with this? Are they aware that what they are posting could be upsetting to somebody? Have you explained that somebody must cross reference any information that they find on the internet? And when you were talking about them protecting their rights, did you talk about them reporting anything that seemed suspicious or upsetting? Did you remind them to keep their personal details private? And did you tell them to block the users? Can you pause the video and add some more information to your leaflet please? Well, thank you for joining us for lesson two of our units, Online and media: Rights, responsibilities and keeping safe.

You need to complete the end quiz before you go.

And I look forward to seeing you in lesson three.