In recent lessons you worked out rules about consent, privacy, fair use and what to do when something goes wrong online.
Today you will turn them into the first draft of your class charter: a list of rights and responsibilities the class agrees to follow online. It has five headings:
- Respect
- Consent
- Privacy
- Responding to harm
- Fair use
You will improve the draft and agree the final version.
A charter is a list of rights and responsibilities the class agrees to follow online. Rights are what you can expect. Responsibilities are what you will do.
A weak statement sounds like a poster slogan, such as "Be nice online." A strong statement is something you can check yourself against, such as "I ask before I post a photo or clip of someone else."
There are five headings:
- Respect: how we treat people
- Consent: asking before sharing photos or clips
- Privacy: personal information and private messages
- Responding to harm: what to do when things go wrong
- Fair use: crediting other people's work
Your teacher builds the class list in the activity below. If you have a device, you can send your ideas to it.
On your device you see the class list too, kept up to date as your teacher builds it.
- Read the headings and starter statements together. You can use a starter, reword it, or write your own.
- As a class, write two or three statements under Respect.
- Then, with the person next to you, write one statement in about 60 seconds. Type it under its heading on your device and press Send, or write it on paper if you have no device.
- Your teacher shows the suggestions on the board. Talk each one through as a class, and your teacher keeps the ones the class agrees on.
- Keep going under the other headings until every heading has at least one statement. Then add more under any heading that only has one or two.
- Every statement must be something a student can actually do, or expect, online.
- Next time the class will improve the list before it becomes final.
Draft our class charter
Now work in small groups to make the draft stronger. Your teacher will give your group one heading, usually one that still only has a few statements.
Send them from your group's device, through the class list in the Hands-on step, so they reach the board. Use paper only if your group has no device, or the list will not open on it.
| Move | Time | What you do |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Write | 5 min | On one device, open the class list in the Hands-on step and type two more statements under your heading, pressing Send for each. No device in your group? Write them on paper. Each one must be something you can check: something a student can do or fairly expect online. If a line already under your heading sounds like a slogan, such as "be kind" or "think first", rewrite it as a real action. |
| 2. Share | 3 min | Your teacher chooses two groups to read one of their best statements aloud. Everyone else listens. |
| 3. Check | 2 min | Your teacher shows the statements on the board and keeps the best of each group's. Look at the class list on your device: the ones your teacher keeps appear under your heading. Wrote on paper? Hand your sheet to your teacher. |
Every group gets its best statements into the draft today, whether you read them aloud or not. That way the whole draft is ready for next time, when the class will join similar statements together, vote and agree on the charter.
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