Choose Your Tools
Pick the tools that work best on your device. The skill matters more than the software. Chromebook, Windows, Mac and iPad users can all complete this activity successfully.
Use this to capture notes and draft your thinking as you go.
The scenarios in Step 3 touch on exclusion and screenshotting private messages. Frame discussion around general scenarios rather than asking learners to disclose personal experiences, unless a learner chooses to share voluntarily.
If a learner discloses a real experience of online exclusion, harassment or having private content shared without consent, treat this as a safeguarding matter and follow your school's usual reporting routes rather than continuing it as a curriculum discussion.
Strong responses show genuine understanding of impact, not just recitation of rules, and pledges include specific, realistic commitments rather than vague good intentions.
For younger or less confident learners, provide sentence starters for the pledge. For more advanced learners, extend into a discussion of platform responsibility versus individual responsibility, linking to the Online Safety Act.
