Sharenting Lesson
By Graphene - Digital Life Lessons
This sharenting lesson helps grades 7–12 students explore children’s privacy, parental social media, digital footprints, consent, children’s rights, online safety, media literacy, and digital citizenship. Many students already have a digital footprint they did not create themselves, from baby photos and family posts to school updates, videos, and stories shared by adults. Students define sharenting, work through realistic parental social media scenarios, and compare parent/caregiver and child/teen perspectives on sharing online. This resource helps students think carefully about privacy, consent, family intentions, digital footprints, and what rights children should have when adults post about them online. This is a low-prep, structured discussion lesson designed to help students think clearly, not tell them what to think. It is not about blaming parents. Most parents share out of love, pride, support, or connection. The lesson asks whether good intentions are enough when a child’s privacy, consent, and future digital footprint are involved. Check my blogpost that dives a bit deeper. Useful for digital citizenship, online safety, media literacy, social studies, health class, advisory, privacy lessons, life skills, SEL, technology class, or any lesson on sharenting, children’s privacy, consent, and digital footprints. This activity is part of the Social Media and Digital Life bundle — a set of 7 activities covering social media safety, the attention economy, FOMO and social co
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