Wednesday 9 October: Teachers and educators
To mark the third day of the SELMA Hacking Hate week, we focus on the essential role teachers and other professionals working with children play in empowering young people to hack online hate though social and emotional learning, critical thinking and civic engagement.
What’s up today?
1- Have a look at our facilitation tips to discuss hate speech with your students
Discussing challenging and sensitive topics such as hate speech is hard – especially with a younger audience. To mark the Hacking Hate week, we are publishing today concrete and hands-on guidance for teachers and educators on how to facilitate this kind of conversation. Be sure to have a look at our facilitation tips!
2 - Take part in our eTwinning webinar
If you are registered in the school community eTwinning, you can participate in the eTwinning webinar Hacking hate with SELMA, starting at 18:00 CET. Facilitated by Andrew Williams, online safety expert at SELMA partner organisation South West Grid for Learning (SWGfL), it will provide participants with an introduction to the SELMA Toolkit and the SELMA approach, which builds upon methodologies such as Social and Emotional Learning (SEL), media literacy and citizenship education. Participants to the webinar will also have the opportunity to discuss with teachers from all over Europe ways of promoting mutual awareness, tolerance and respect.
3 - SELMA Ambassadors get involved in the Hacking Hate week
The SELMA Ambassadors are organisations or individuals that show commitment to hack online hate speech by engaging with the SELMA programme. During the Hacking Hate week, Ambassadors are carrying out various activities to raise awareness of the SELMA project and the phenomenon of online hate. Interested? Become a SELMA Ambassador yourself and gain recognition as an advocate against hate speech!
Looking back
The SELMA Toolkit materials – which are now available in Danish, English, German and Greek – provide a wealth of ideas and activities for teachers and educators to select from, in order to build the learning path that will truly correspond to their objectives and audiences.
With over 100 resources, it can be hard to know where to start! For this reason, you can have a look at the SELMA “how to” guide for individuals working a school context to discover our suggested pathways into the SELMA Toolkit, as well as how to embed activities from the SELMA Toolkit in a whole-school approach. You can also discover similar guidance on using the SELMA Toolkit with vulnerable groups and on hacking online hate by setting up peer-to-peer mentoring schemes for young people.
You can also read our articles “Four suggestions to tackle online hate speech in your classroom” and “Top tips to set up a whole-school strategy to hack online hate”.
To.