SAFE course / Module: Social Media Safety for Students (DEMO)
Everything you need to know about playing it safe on social media
SAFE stands for Safety Awareness For Education. SAFE consists of several modules, one of them being social media safety for students.
There are many different reasons why social media can be a dangerous playground. While the horror stories all focus on kids being lured or abducted, there are far more threats that are less severe. No matter your age or sex, it is important to follow some important rules for social media safety.
Is social media working for or against you? It’s time to make your social network work for you!
Your Instructor
Thomas moved to East Africa in his teens where he thereafter grew up in the African melting pot of Nairobi, Kenya. While finishing his baccalauréat degree in Nairobi, to thereafter study Social Anthropology at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, he soon found his way to the less fortunate in society, the people of the slums, and got closely acquainted to their ways and struggles. A place where also a big part of the exiled resistance to the dictatorship in neighbouring Uganda kept base and from where a large part of the support for the guerrilla fighting the regime actually took place.
Thomas' integration and involvement with those from a very different background than his own would lead to his active involvement in not only the freedom of Uganda's people but subsequently, on a first hand basis in several other conflicts. His ability to adapt, 'melt into', and decode, understand and relate to different environments and peoples has made him a perfect asset in the field for those he has stood close to. His imagination and almost limitless ways to find solutions to problems alongside a solid spirit and vast and long experience of survival under extreme situations only adds to him now being a true asset to The Aidgency's core.
Further SAFE course instructors
Caroline Hunt-Matthes
Caroline Hunt-Matthes is a graduate of Harvard University and a human rights lawyer by training with a postgraduate in pedagogy and education. She dedicated her early career to the provision of legal services for poor communities in the UK and USA in the where she catalysed new laws for victims of domestic violence.
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Jon Crail
Jon is passionate about Development in every sense and his education and professional experience are testament to this. Following undergraduate studies in the US Jon completed a Masters degree in ‘Social Psychology - Health, Community & Development’ at the London School of Economics.
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Frequently Asked Questions
"I am so happy that I took this course. Now I know how to handle my social media accounts."
Martha S (15)