Person-Centered Thinking & Safety
Black History Month
Learn about the Firsts in Sports this week!
Maurice Ashley is the first African American Chess Grand Master: Read about him here and see a short video with him here
Check In & Introduce the Week (10 min)
Theme for the week: Relationships in Real and Digital Spaces
Skill for the week: Kindness online
Show & Share (10-min)
Got any lucky objects or clothes? Tell us how they came into your life and
why they are lucky.
Tomorrow's Show & Share: Show us your favorite keepsake from childhood. What does it
make you remember?
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Thematic Activity (10-15 min)
PRESENTERS: Use the links below to guide a discussion on social media tools, who uses them, how and why. Don't encourage or discourage use. Instead help people state what they offer and decide their own level of interest in it.
(remember to click on graphics with the magnifier pointer to make them bigger and use CTRL and the + sign to enlarge images that don't offer a magnifier pointer)
Do you recognize it?
Look at these icons of different social media tools.
How many can we name?
Presenters: If you aren't sure of the name float a mouse over the logo and wait for the tool tip to tell you the name.
Now that we know their logos, let's look at the most popular ones in this infographic.
- Which one has the MOST users?
- Which one do people use for almost an hour every day?
- Which one is the OLDEST?
- Which ones do any of your group know or use?
Explains how big a billion really is as a number.
The Good and the Bad of Social Media
People want others to like them. Social media is a way for people to say what they think even if no one asked them. This video about HOW social media affects student athletes talks about the difficulty of being out in a public place where everyone can say whatever they want.
- What do you think about the effect of social media on mental health?
- If you use social media, how do you comment to others?
- What kinds of comments do you get FROM others?
- If something is "trending" does that mean it's good or important? If not, what does "trending" mean?
Skill Builder (5-10 min)
PRESENTERS: Guide the discussion to help participants understand that their own social media activities may be evaluated by others and that they can evaluate the behavior of others online too.
- How we behave on social media creates a record that other people can go look up.
- Sometimes, some people, forget that social media works that way and they post things online that others see as "red flags."
- A red flag is something that alerts us to a danger or a possible problem.
Imagine you are a business owner looking to hire a new employee. You want someone who will be responsible, honest and help you take good care of your customrs. You interview a few people who might be good but when you look up their social media you find these things. Do you still want to hire them?
- ALL their profiles are private and nothing is visible to the public. You can see their name but they show nothing at all to the public view.
- You see a number of photos in which they are taking an illegal substance.
- They have a website but it's not very interesting.
- You found a bunch of youtube videos where they are yelling angry opinions at the camera for a long time.
- They have a TON of pictures of their pets and food choices.
- You found a resume on their profile that is completely different than they one they gave you and you aren't sure which one is true.
- They have bad spelling in their posts.
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Survival Language (5-10 min)
Follow along with home worksheet to solve the crossword.
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What did we learn today?
What are we doing this afternoon?
