[Summary: Draft of a new one page guide putting the critical questions approach to online safety into practice]
I’m heading to Coventry tomorrow to lead a training session in using social media for activism for young people involved in the DFID funded Youth For Fair Trade project. We’ll be exploring a whole range of social media tools that project can use to campaign online.
However, it’s important not only to equip young people with the skills to use social media, but we also need to talk about the skills to use social media safely. I’ll be including some elements from the ‘Critical Questions framework‘ I blogged about earlier this year, but, know that we’ll be tight for time on Sunday, and that leaving people with a aide-memoir is always a good thing – I’ve put together a draft one page ‘Social Media Checklist for safe and effective youth projects‘.
You can view it below, download the PDF here, and if you want to adapt and update it, as a word file here.
Like all the one page guides it is under a creative commons license to encourage you to take, remix and share back your updates. This is very much a draft, and so I would welcome your critical questions about it – and reflections on how it could be improved as a resource to support young people thinking positively and proactively about being sensible and safe as online actors.
A quick bit of learning: I used this worksheet in a workshop today – and found talking to the group about how “Social media can be powerful” but that having that power, brings responsibility, was a good way to frame the discussion and exploration of the points in this handout.