The Power of Words

What should you do when someone uses mean or hurtful language on the internet?

Learning Objectives

• Understand that it's important to think about the words we use, because everyone interprets things differently.

• Identify ways to respond to mean words online, using S-T-O-P.

• Decide what kinds of statements are OK to say online and which are not.

Vocabulary

empathy: to imagine the feelings that someone else is experiencing

interpret: to understand something based on our point of view