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Chapter 23: Teenagers’ online rights
CHAPTER 23
Teenagers’ online rights
LEARNING INTENTION
Define and explain the rights that young people have online.
LEARNING OUTCOME
4.2 Document young people’s online rights – the right to information, free expression, protection of minors, and the role of parents, governments and civil society in enforcing their rights. CHAPTER OVERVIEW Every person who uses the internet has digital rights. Young people (under the age of 18) have more rights than adults. The United Nations’ Convention on the Rights of the Child applies to the internet as it would offline. The rights that are outlined in the document that can be applied to the protection of minors online are: 1. Children’s right to share information and ideas unless they are harmful or offensive. (Article 13) 2. Children’s right to privacy and protection from attacks against their reputation. (Article 16)SAMPLE 3. Children’s right to access information, but also to be protected from harmful information (Article 17) 4. Children’s right to feel safe and to be protected from all forms of violence (Articles 19, 34 and 36)
MATERIALS
Digital devices with internet access. eLearning platform: Microsoft Teams, Google Classroom Microsoft Word UK ‘Childrens Commissioner’ video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mq-BWUt2_t4
ACTIVE LEARNING METHODOLOGIES
Reflection journal Group work Word association Comparison
PRACTICAL SKILLS
Blogging Podcasting Presentation
OBJECTIVES
By the end of this chapter students will be able to:
Define
Privacy Exploitation UN
Describe Explain Create The work of the UN The role of: Parents Governments Civil society in enforcing children’s rights Freedom of Expression The Right to Privacy The Right to Access of Appropriate information The Right to Freedom from Exploitation Blog Podcast Presentation SAMPLE
ACTIVITY 1: BLOG Students will watch the following video from the U.K. Children’s Commissioner and write a blog post discussing your opinion on the claims made in the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mq-BWUt2_t4
Scan the QR Code to watch the video
ACTIVITY 2: WORD ASSOCIATION Students will write down words that you associate with the terms below. SAMPLE
ACTIVITY 3: COMPARISON Students will read the following article and highlight the facts and opinions you agree with in one colour and the facts and opinions that you disagree with in another colour. In pairs, students will compare the articles and discuss why you highlighted the way that you did.
ACTIVITY 4: TEENS’ PERSPECTIVE Which digital human right is the most important to you? Students will research one right from a teenager’s perspective and create a group presentation explaining the right to the class.
https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2015/dec/23/banning-teenagers-social-media-europe-regulation-attack-human-rights Scan the QR Code to read the article SAMPLE
ACTIVITY 5: PODCAST Students will consider how parents, the government and civil society can better support teenagers in protecting their human rights. They will create a podcast discussing this topic.
PAUSE & REFLECT In their reflection journal, students will describe: Three things you learned in this section Two things you already knew One thing you would like to learn more aboutSAMPLE
