Security of sharing content (Antanas’ story) STORY DESCRIPTION
PUPILS AGE SELF-REFLECTION QUESTIONS
NON-FORMAL GROUP ACTIVITIES
Antanas is a socially active young boy who has a lot of friends online. Usually, it’s his friends from school, gym, etc. Preferring to spend his free time socializing online… And lately, he’s been getting a lot of attention from a guy who identifies as his friend. Antanas was intrigued by this mystery man, so he continued chatting. They bonded quite quickly, made jokes, and had fun. Soon enough Antanas fully trusted his new friend and was comfortable sending selfies. Few months went by and Antanas noticed his pictures online being laughed at and mocked for his facial complexion. Quickly realizing that these pictures he sent to his mysterious friend, he contacted him. But this time there was no warm welcome as he was neglected and laughed at by his friend whom he fully trusted. Confused at first, he didn’t want to believe that this is real, he tried to delete and block messages from spam. As the cyberbullying carried for a few weeks, he started begging to stop the hate comments, but it was useless. Finally, as his last way of coping with this threat, he started to verbally attack him sending him the same messages he received. That was pointless as well and even demotivated him because the hate comments and private messages insulting him increased and outgrew into threats for his life.
14 - 15 YEARS 1. How does Antanas feel in this situation? 2. What do you think will happen to him? 3. What’s the main problem in this story? 4. What should Antanas do in this situation? 5. Have you experienced or heard a similar story? How did it end? 6. What can we learn from this? What are the main aspects of this story? Objective: to discuss problems encountered online (sharing malicious content, the term of “sexting”) Materials: room, situation, paper, pen, recommendations to students Methods: a theoretical review of the material, case/situation reading, and discussion, group discussion, reflection. This session requires the involvement of participants. ~ 30 young people 14-15 years age, 1 or 2 academic hours. Analysis of submitted stories: Participants are divided into 4-6 groups. Each group receives a sheet with a written story. In groups, participants are selected: (reader, clerk), who read the given story and write down the participants' thoughts on the answered questions.
