Level 5 - Internet Safety

Key learning points

• Unhealthy behaviour tends to follow certain patterns.

• We can identify patterns to avoid unhealthy relationships.

• Unhealthy behaviour includes manipulation tactics.

• Manipulation tactics can be hard to spot.

• Manipulative behaviour sometimes begins with apparently positive actions, such as gift-giving and flattery.

Keywords

• Relationship - the connection between people

• Unhealthy - not good for us

• Behaviour - the things that someone does and says

• Manipulation - influencing someone's emotions to make them do something

• Tactic - the method to achieve something

Key learning points

• It is possible to get added to group chats without your permission.

• Group chats with online strangers are risky places.

• Settings can often be changed to make us safer.

• Group chats are an increasingly powerful part of socialising as we get older.

• We cannot trust everyone in group chats, even if we were added by someone we know.

Keywords

• Group chat - an online conversation between multiple people

• Online stranger - someone we do not know offline

• Socialise - to chat or hang out with someone we know

Key learning points

• Comparison between our lives and the lives of others can impact our mental health.

• There is often a difference between how things appear and how they really are online.

• Our expectations of online content do not always align with reality.

• Online content and behaviour can increase anxiety and feelings of comparison.

• Negative and pressurising content can impact our mental wellbeing.

Keywords

• Social media - websites and apps used to share words and images with other people

• Compare - to look at how similar or different we are to someone else

• Influencer - an online celebrity who is famous or trying to get famous

• Anxious - feeling worried, nervous, or unsure about something that might happen, like before a test or speaking in front of people; the feeling can also be felt in your body

Key learning points

• Offline activities are crucial to our mental wellbeing.

• We should be aware of the risks of social media.

• Being able to recognise unhealthy behaviour and relationships is vital to our wellbeing

• Group chats can be an especially risky places.

• Not everything we see online is true.

Keywords

• Social media - websites and apps used to share words and images with other people

• Communicate - to talk to someone using text, words, images or video

• Behaviour - the things that someone does and says

• Risk - something that could be dangerous