Good treatment
Good Deed Online Summary This activity invites participants to practice good treatment online through posting on social media and tagging friends.
Materials Access to devices and internet
Procedure 1. Ask participants what social media platforms they normally use and what treatment they usually receive there. Ask them to give examples of when they were treated both positively and negatively online. 2. Explain the participants they are offered a challenge: they need to make a publication or story on a social media of their choice (e.g. Instagram), which includes a nice message. The publication should be complimenting other participants in the group, who should be tagged. Encourage participants to include people they normally talk less to. You can also include a hashtag (e.g. #goodtreatment or something else you can come up with together with the participants). 3. You can either allow time for this activity immediately or depending on the length of your learning process, you can give a longer time. You can repeat it (e.g. on a daily basis). 4. At the end of the learning process, make sure to take time and discuss the activity with the participants, following the proposed debriefing questions.
Debriefing questions • How did you feel when you posted something nice for others? And how about when others posted something nice about you? • Does it take much effort to perform gestures of good treatment online? Why don’t we do them more often? • Do you think the activity sends a message to your friends/followers on social media? If so, what message? • How can we continue making gestures of good treatment in the group and beyond?
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