The table of best practices online

Activity Presentation

Objectives:

• Reflect on certain practices we can adopt online
• Encourage positive and respectful digital citizenship
• Learn to discuss and justify one’s point of view

The exercise consists of a table to be filled out by participants and a list of several possible behaviors on the internet. Participants must classify these behaviors as either good or bad practices.

Dialogue and argumentation are essential for this activity. Participants are asked to justify their choices. This dialogue is even more effective if a spokesperson is designated in each group, encouraging discussion and consensus before submitting a final answer.

Activity variant: Without a computer or projector, print multiple copies of the good practices table, leaving many blank cells for participants to fill in as proposals arise.

Activity Procedure

1. Room preparation: Divide participants into 2–3 groups and present the good practices table on a board, projector, or printed paper.

2. Submit these example proposals for participants to classify:

• Report a hateful or violent comment under a post
• Accept anyone into your friend list
• Block a user on a social network
• Debate with an insulting person in video comments
• Share your address or personal information
• Post a photo of your friends without asking
• Use the same password for all social networks

3. Each answer should be argued by the group and open a mini-debate based on topics such as: freedom of expression, moderation of hateful content, conspiracy theories, defamation (see “FICHE 14 – DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP” and “FICHE 12 – Raising Awareness Against Online Hate”).

Online Adaptation

It is possible to have participants fill out this table remotely by sending it to them along with example proposals to insert into the table.