Let's Talk About Sending or Receiving Inappropriate Photos

I just finished working with one of my students using the Smart Choices Image Cards. I use them as a jumping off place that creates space to talk about hard things.

I’m a tutor in Minnesota and like to incorporate Smart Choices in my writing exercises with my students. I give them time to look at the card, formulate what is happening in the picture on the card and then ask them open ending questions about what the card means to them.

I use the Five W approach with my questions….Who, What, Where, When and Why to explore the possibilities of each scenario on the card. Then I ask them to write paragraph describing their response to the card.

Today my 7th grade student shared about how hard it is on social media at his school. “we see things that just aren’t meant to be seen”, he told me today as we talked about sending or receiving inappropriate photos on our phones.

• We talked about acknowledging healthy boundaries before even engaging on social media apps.
• We both wondered out loud what we would do if certain things came our way on our phones. What would we do and at what point do we get a trusted adult involved or even the authorities.
• We talked about the compounding effect of sending one photo to a friend, and so on, and so on, and so on….and what we could be responsible for when sending inappropriate texts.

​Thank you to Smart Choices for giving my students exposure to real-life scenarios that prepare them, just enough, that when the time comes, they may think, “Hey, I’ve seen this before and already know what I am going to do!” 

Steph Schrope 
Minnesota Tutor