Social Media and Teens: Real Scenarios for Wired Teens

The format for this 32 page guide has been employed in a variety of ways in the classroom: in game show form, in cooperative teams, and in whole class discussion. Some scenarios are geared for older teens so use your discretion for which circumstances best apply to your audience. The bolded “answers” are what the students decided on after listing the options and defending their rationale. Your teens may disagree and that is GREAT…really, as long as they are talking, then you are doing your job!!! Dialogue is the only way to engage in such sensitive topics. Get them to talk and you will get them to listen; if not to you, to each other. And that is the proverbial step in the right direction.

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