At the beginning of this unit I used Instagram, YouTube, Tik Tok, iMessages, face-time, outlook and Pinterest, I still use these platforms however I am a lot more conscious of what I do and say on there.
Some key things I learned where that even small things can hurt peoples feelings and to make sure you don’t say things that could potentially hurt someone. I also learned that empathy isn’t just saying at least you have this or that for example at least you have friends because it doesn’t really make you feel any better and you should always listen to what the person has to say even if you don’t know a way you can help them feel better because your saying at least you have this. This links back to the booklet because we had to explain what we thought about this and we had to watch a video about 2 animal friends and one of them was upset and the other one didn’t know what to do, a moose later came in and explained that empathy isn’t just saying at least you have this or that because it doesn’t make the person and being there for them and listening to what they have to say can make them feel better.
It effected me because I didn’t realize what actually happened to people online like in Dolly’s story she committed suicide because of what people had said to her and I don’t think it’s right for someone to have to end their life because people where saying nasty things to them and she was really young. Know I am extremely careful of what I do online even though I was already cautious of what I did I am even more aware of what happens.
I was already really cautious of what I did online and thought before I did things so I don’t think I am going to change anything but I am more aware of what happens online but I will make sure that I be careful of what I post so it can;t hurt others in case something I post they don’t like
We also explained what we thought about the things we learned on a padlet and explained what we learned about the what we did in health like learning respect, empathy, critical thinking and courage this is what I wrote on the padlet “What I found interesting was that there are lots of rude things on the internet like people saying rude thins to other people like in Dolly’s story people said if I was you I would just go kill myself and things like that and it’s not right for people to do things like that and I wasn’t aware before. I also learned empathy isn’t saying at least you have this or that it means listening to what they have to say and help them for example saying at least you have friends. What I found interesting was that people actually do the things on the videos like punch ups and people jumping off the buildings and I didn’t think people would do things like that the video I found most interesting was the video of the punch up at the skate park because the man realized it wasn’t right to just stand around and watch this happen so I went in between them to stop the fight from happening. What I found a little bit boring was that we had to sit down and fill in a sheet most of the lesson and maybe if we did an activity connecting to this like acting out a scene with friends and it could have been a bit more enjoyable. I really enjoyed learning about situations that happen in the world and what goes on in peoples lives everyday because I didn’t know about Dolly and her story and that leads to respect because you should respect everyone no matter what they look like and what has happened to them.” I wrote this because I learned a lot from those 5 lessons and I was glad we learned these things as I wasn’t aware of some of the things we learned before. After we finished this we had to answer 4 other peoples posts and ask them questions about what they learned one of the questions I asked was “What was your favorite video and why?” Because they didn’t answer that part in their padlet and I wanted to know as they hadn’t mentioned it.
– Hayley