The experiment wanted to make ESO students aware of what can be found on the platforms
With the return to the classrooms in the new school year, the problems of harassment and ‘bullying’ suffered by children and young people return. The easy and early access to social networks also means that this ill-treatment goes beyond the real barrier and also sneaks into the virtual field, which means being constantly exposed to it. Teachers, aware of these dangers, are looking for ways to help their students and make them aware of what they can find online.
This is the case of Ainara, an ESO teacher who took advantage of the first days of class to carry out an experiment in the classroom and give them a lesson they will not forget. The Twitter account @RCPdesdemicole shared what happened in a thread to serve many more people. It all started when the teacher asked her students to write anonymously on a piece of paper what they would think of the phrase: “My son is different from most of you.”
A friend’s daughter just told me about an experiment her teacher did at the beginning of the course (they are in ESO), when they barely knew her.
-Take a piece of paper. You are going to write what you think I mean by this sentence:
“My son is different from most of you.”
CPR from my school (@RCPdesdemicole) September 27, 2022
After collecting the answers and before reading them, he announced that many were repeated, but there were also very varied and original ones, even “joking”. Some of the answers were: “He is gifted”, “he is gay”, “he has some disease”, “he is lame”, “he is extremely ugly”, “he is mentally retarded”, “he has two mothers” or “he is adopted”. The long list of arguments unleashed the laughter of the boys at the most absurd answers.
However, when he finished reading them, he explained that none of them had been right. But the conclusion of the exercise was not to get it right, but to realize that each one had “analyzed the same sentence according to what was in the head at that moment or what had more weight.” In the end he explained to them that none of them had been successful because they did not know her well enough “to know what she was thinking or where the shots were going.”
Once the experiment was done, the teacher warned them that “this same thing is going to happen to you every time you write on a social network”, so that they are prepared to face it, since “maybe not a single person guesses what you were really referring to.” The lesson has been liked so much on Twitter that it already has more than 20,000 ‘likes’ and numerous reactions. Many users have taken the opportunity to draw many other conclusions, such as what is different for each one and if that difference is positive or negative. It certainly makes you think.
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