Learning outcomes and intentions
To provide students with education that protects them today and helps them act with thought for their own futures, safeguarding their opportunities to find suitable employment along with protecting their reputations.
To develop both the understandings and the skills required to use the Internet appropriately in order to reduce the chances for harm to occur to the student, their family and friends.
Key areas of learning
Relating to others
The Protecting Identity Module (PIM) creates opportunity for students to debate with each other the consequences of certain behaviours adopted by young people who use the Internet or any mobile communication device. It identifies the victims of these behaviours and the consequences. PIM identifies ways to avoid the behaviour by describing the value of a young person’s identity in the present and the future. It also highlights the opportunity that exists when learning to relate to others positively.
Using language, symbols and texts
Students learn to use digital environments safely and effectively by understanding the dangers and constraints of these environments. Students learn to use these systems correctly by using the appropriate language designed to safeguard the physical and psychological wellbeing of the student, their friends and their family.
Managing Self
Students understand the impact of inappropriate communication across digital networks and learn how to communicate appropriately and positively in these mediums. Students become aware of their actions towards others when using digital environments positively or negatively, and the harmful consequences of negative use in both the present and in the future.
Thinking
By describing in advance the positive and negative impacts on themselves, family and/or friends students can make informed decisions
Connected
Students learn to communicate positively with each and avoid the consequences of inappropriate types of communication including the impact of:
- Sharing personal private information across digital networks
- Sexting; the implications for the sender and the recipient who requested the image
Confident
Students understand the importance and value of there own identity, their friends' identity and their family identity. Students learn to challenge requests that might threaten their physical safety and psychological wellbeing.
Key Vocabulary
- Respect
- Identity
- Valuing self
- Protecting family
- Protecting friends
- Respecting partners
- Protecting self
- Valuing their identity
- Responsibility
- Consequences
- Actions
- Protecting each other
- Protecting the relationships
- Online grooming
- Sexual predation
- Employability
- Sexting
- Identity Theft
- Real-world theft
- Paedophiles
- Con men
- Fraud
Main Topics
Sexual Abuse/Personal Safety
Identifying ways in which paedophiles target minors via the Internet and developing the skills and knowledge required to lessen the opportunity for predators to cause harm to minors.
Future-Proofing the Student/Employment
Future-proof students by increasing their knowledge about how specific behaviours adopted today will lessen their chances at interview time.
Real-World Theft
Teaching minors to understand that certain types of outbound information that they or their friends submit via digital communication devices can allow predators to find and attack homes for the purpose of stealing family assets. The increased awareness will encourage the minor to change the type of outbound content they submit thus reducing the opportunities for crime to occur.