This lesson has a focus on positive behaviours that can enhance students’ experiences of being online. Building on the safe and responsible use of digital devices, and through the lens of digital citizenship, there is a particular emphasis on a single, positive behaviour – kindness. The principal activity aims to help students explore the ways in which they can promote kindness online. In the second activity, students consider both the positive and negative approaches that might happen online. As students navigate the new relationships, spaces and places, online and offline, as part of their transition to post-primary, practising kindness is key to safer, positive experiences.
Students should be enabled to:
- Reflect on the meaning of the word ‘kindness’
- Reflect on and discuss what kindness looks like online
- Identify a time when they were kind to themselves
- Identify a time when someone else was kind to them online
- Become aware of and identify ways in which to spread kindness online