Social media is a staple in teenage lives, and many kids have their own cell phones as young as grade 5. This means not only do youth need support learning skills for face-to-face life, but also online life. When it comes to sexual health, social media makes for double duty on skills to stay safe, protect their privacy, make healthy decisions and foster happy relationships. This session will empower teachers to tackle social media and online aspects in their sexual health units such as sexting, sextortion, pornography, gender stereotypes, online dating, privacy, and more! We will cover how these topics relate to curriculum objectives, what youth need to know, and how much detail to provide.
Participants will leave with a pocket full of evidence-based resources to support their unit design, and the confidence to tackle this topic and meet best practice standards.