{"id":115,"date":"2025-03-21T13:39:34","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T13:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/textbook.mediasmarts.ca\/navigating-teacher\/chapter\/witnessing-online-meanness-and-cruelty-complications-2\/"},"modified":"2025-03-22T19:16:02","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T19:16:02","slug":"witnessing-online-meanness-and-cruelty-complications-2","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/textbook.mediasmarts.ca\/navigating-teacher\/chapter\/witnessing-online-meanness-and-cruelty-complications-2\/","title":{"raw":"Witnessing Online Meanness and Cruelty: Complications","rendered":"Witnessing Online Meanness and Cruelty: Complications"},"content":{"raw":"\nHave students access the student chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/textbook.mediasmarts.ca\/navigatingstudent\/chapter\/witnessing-online-meanness-and-cruelty-complications\/\">Witnessing Online Meanness and Cruelty: Complications<\/a>, or share it on a digital projector or digital whiteboard.\n\nHave students watch the video and then answer the multiple choice question: What can you do to help?\n\nHighlight to students that because you already know Jody wants you to help, there are <strong>three <\/strong>possible right answers and just <strong>one<\/strong> wrong one (Report the post).\n\n&nbsp;\n<div class=\"textbox shaded\">\n\nIt's important not to worry about doing the <strong>perfect <\/strong>thing when you see online meanness and cruelty: it's almost always better to just do <strong>something<\/strong>, so long as you know it won't make things worse.\n\n<\/div>\n&nbsp;\n\nAt the end of the video is an open text question: Was Amelia wrong to post this photo? Why or why not?\n\nHave students write a short answer (this can be done in pairs if you like) and then share their opinion with the class.\n\nPrompting questions:\n\n&nbsp;\n<ul>\n \t<li>Should Amelia have known that the photo would be embarrassing to Jody?<\/li>\n \t<li>Does Amelia have a right to post a photo of herself even if it will embarrass someone else?\n<ul>\n \t<li>If so, is it more important than Jody's right to decide what's done with a photo of herself?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n \t<li>What duty does Amelia have to control what people say in comments on her posts?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n&nbsp;\n\nDo not try to bring students to a consensus. Instead, point out to students that it's easy to make a decision when it's clear what's right and what's wrong (as in the first video); what's harder is when you have to choose between two things that you think are right.\n\nThis is called a <strong>moral dilemma <\/strong>because we have to weigh two moral principles against one another - such as Amelia's and Jody's rights.\n\nPoint out that because moral dilemmas have no single \"right\" answer, we have to pay close attention to the specific facts of the situation.\n<div class=\"textbox textbox--exercises\"><header class=\"textbox__header\">\n<p class=\"textbox__title\">Ask students: <strong>Would your opinion change if...<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"textbox__content\">\n\n&nbsp;\n<ul>\n \t<li>Amelia knew that the other girls often teased Jody?<\/li>\n \t<li>Nobody had ever seen that photo before?<\/li>\n \t<li>If the photo had been taken at a place where Jody would expect to have privacy, instead of a public pool?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n&nbsp;\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n","rendered":"<p>Have students access the student chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/textbook.mediasmarts.ca\/navigatingstudent\/chapter\/witnessing-online-meanness-and-cruelty-complications\/\">Witnessing Online Meanness and Cruelty: Complications<\/a>, or share it on a digital projector or digital whiteboard.<\/p>\n<p>Have students watch the video and then answer the multiple choice question: What can you do to help?<\/p>\n<p>Highlight to students that because you already know Jody wants you to help, there are <strong>three <\/strong>possible right answers and just <strong>one<\/strong> wrong one (Report the post).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"textbox shaded\">\n<p>It&#8217;s important not to worry about doing the <strong>perfect <\/strong>thing when you see online meanness and cruelty: it&#8217;s almost always better to just do <strong>something<\/strong>, so long as you know it won&#8217;t make things worse.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the video is an open text question: Was Amelia wrong to post this photo? 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