Over a couple of weeks, we have filled in a booklet about online behaviours. In this unit, I learnt to stand up to negative online behaviours and to be empathetic to others online and be an Upstander (A helpful Bystander). I do not have any social media’s such as Instagram, Facebook or Snapchat but from this unit, I knew that I could change my behaviours online such as changing the way I speak to friends and others while playing games, the way I comment to things in YouTube and the way I speak on group chat’s

Lesson 1: CRITICAL THINKING
With critical thinking, the video and the lesson we had learnt had shown me to always analyze and look so I am able to use my critical thinking in situations. The video we were shown had shown 2 kids who had seen a video online of a guy jumping off a bridge and they had thought it was real but when they went to the bridge and tried they realized how big the jump is. This is helpful because in these situations you have to analyze and use critical thinking to say Ummm, no that has to be fake no one could make such a jump. This can help me in future, for example, people doing stunts or crazy pranks that could certainly get you arrested if watch it and get analyse the video you can see its fake.

Lesson 2: EMPATHY
In the video, it speaks about being able to listen to the person, be honest and give them constructive feedback and advice for whatever they are going through. The video says not to silver line it and says “Oh don’t worry at least you have… and …” but to be nice listen and comfort the person. An example can be of someone angry because their parents won’t buy them a ps4 you should not say “oh at least you have parents some kids don’t” because this won’t make the person feel better will it?

Lesson 3: RESPECT:
This was my favourite part of this unit because this was the topic that gave me the most view and perspective of social media and what can happen. Things like jail and jobs were the topics that I got a better view of. I learnt that if you are not careful and you do not respect others, this will come around to bite you in the backside. You can ruin friendships, relationships and families. An example of this is someone who is going for a job interview and does exceptionally well may not get the job because of one dumb video of you doing something dumb or idiotic, for example, a video of you drink and throwing rocks at a car. That car could have been a family car of someone you may know or not know and they could have been killed kidnapped all because you broke their car.

Lesson 4: Responsibility

This was not my favourite one but gave me a more mature perspective instead of being taught the social media world and bullying. This helped because it had shown me the way to behave online and how to deal with your troubles. This had spoken about who to speak to if you were getting bullied and why you would go to these people.

In conclusion, I am grateful that we were given this opportunity to be given a broader view of the world, social media, cyber-bullying and being empathetic. This has certainly been a good journey and it has also helped with my behaviours and my decision making to make me more responsible.