Students can understand the pressures on young people

to send naked pictures (sexts)

Students can give advice to others to avoid sending a

sext

Students can understand the possible consequences of

sending a sext, including the legal consequences

Students can discuss if girls have a (more) negative

experience online
Discuss
• How do people in romantic relationships
communicate using digital technologies?
• How do people in relationships communicate
differently online than they might face to face?
• Do you think the Internet and cell phones can have
a positive impact on people’s romantic
relationships?
Self-Disclosure
• Is a process of communication by which one person
reveals information about himself or herself to
another. The information can be descriptive or
evaluative, and can include thoughts, feelings,
aspirations, goals, failures, successes, fear, and
dreams, as well as one’s likes, dislikes, and
favorites.
What are examples of self-
disclosure?
• Secret about self
• Sharing information about family, childhood, hopes,
dreams, fears, feelings.
• Extra curricular activities
• Hobbies
Can someone deepen their
relationships by self-disclosing?
• Self disclosure can bring people closer becase it
helps them learn about one another while also
signaling trust.
Are there types of self-disclosure that
people should be careful about
sharing with others?
• Self-disclosure about very private and personal
tings can make you feel exposed, especially if
someone else doesn’t reciprocate. There is a risk in
self-disclosure because even if they trust someone,
he or she might shear that information with others.
How might self-disclosing using
digital technologies be even more
risky than face-to-face?
• Digital technology provides a record of what was
shared. This can be copied, forwarded, altered, or
shared.
Sexting
• sending, receiving, or forwarding sexually
explicit messages, photographs or images, primarily
between mobile phones. It may also include the
use of a computer or any digital device
 Watch “Just send it”

http://www.childnet.com/resources/pshetoolkit/sexting/
just-send-it
Is this story realistic? Could a similar
situation happen in this school?

The title of this toolkit is ‘Crossing the

Line’. In this film, where do you think
the line was crossed?

Why does Josh mention possible involvement

from the police at the end of the film? Who do
you think broke the law in this film?
 Abi was reluctant at first to send the
image to Josh. What made her change
her mind?

Why did Josh ask for the photo?

Did he feel any pressure to have
images like this?
Did Abi give consent for her photo
to be shared around the school?
In this situation, who is more at
fault – Josh, Abi or Brandon?
Anyone else?

Do you think Josh respected Abi?

How can you tell if someone
respects you?
Some of the comments under Abi’s photo are
quite mean. None of them seem to portray
Josh in a negative light. Do you think there
are different standards between boys and
girls: if a guys sends the picture around or if a
girl does?

Abi receives a naked picture of

Josh first. What would happen if
Abi decided to share this picture
What do you think of the comment around to others?
that Eve makes when she says,
“Gotta keep your man happy”? Is this
how girls can feel; that they must
keep their boyfriends or friends
happy?
 Instead of sharing the naked photo, what
could Abi have done to let Josh know that
although she likes him, she doesn’t want to
send him a nude photo?

When she discovered the picture

had been shared around, Abi
didn’t want to go to school. She What could the
eventually told her mum, but who other characters
else could she have spoken to have done to help
about her situation?
Abi?

What do you think happens next in the film? What happens when
Abi goes back to school? What happens when Abi meets Josh for
the first time? Would Abi want to meet Josh again?
 Activity 1 -
How Should It End?

Take a minute and write the 5 minutes

response Shaila should give

her boyfriend Jake.
Ally’s Story
Discuss
• Why did Ally share the nude picture of herself with
her ex-boyfriend?
• Why do you think Ally’s ex-boyfriend forwarded the
picture to others?
• How might Ally have felt after she found out the
photo was sent around?
• Looking back on the situation, Ally has a different
perspective on what happened. What did she later
realize?
 Activity 2 -
Who Can Help?

Take a few minutes to write 7 minutes

your responses on the

worksheet.
Video
Research/Data
• 29% of 5th grade students (10-11 year olds) have cell
phone
• 22% of teenage girls have sent nude pictures of
themselves
• 18% of teenage boys have sent nude pictures of
themselves
• 56% of teens and young adults have received nude
pictures
• 66% of girls who engage in sexting, say they do so to be
“fun” or flirtatious. Cosmo Girl Survey, October 2008
Cases
• Texas- a 15 year old boy was charged with child
pornography for receiving nude photos
• Utah- 16 year old boy charged with a felony for sending
a nude photo of himself to female classmates
• Wisconsin- teen was charged with child pornography
for posting nude photos of a 16 year old girl on his
MySpace account
• Ohio- a senior high school student committed suicide
after learning that a nude picture of herself that she sent
to her boyfriend had been distributed at four local senior
high schools.
Consequences
• Images are posted forever
• Images may be distributed everywhere and used
for different reasons
• Images may limit ability to get a job, join the
military, or get into college
• Images may destroy current and future
relationships
• Sexting behavior leads to other risk behaviors
• Images open the door for other sexual crimes
Crossing The Line?
Cyberbullying and the Law
 Be An UpStander, Not a bystander
• Set a good example – positive people
spread positive feelings
• Be a friend – both online and offline
• Don’t encourage bad behavior by giving it
an audience – don’t “like” or respond to
hurtful comments or posts.
• Don’t pass on hurtful messages
• Report mean, bullying behavior.