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Grades 4–5 · First Screens · Badge 1

Everyone in the picture has to agree

Know who needs asking before a photo goes up, and ask them.

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Step 1 of 9

1Look

Six people, one phone

Still image

The group photo

Six kids on a bench pulling faces, one of them holding the phone out at arm's length. The one at the end is looking away, not ready.

One person took it. Six people are in it. Whose photo is it?

2The idea

It is everyone's photo

The person holding the phone did the pressing. The people in it did the being-in-it, and it is their face that goes out to everyone who sees it. A photo of someone is theirs as much as yours. Pressing the button does not make it only yours.

That includes your little brother, your mum, your teacher. Being a grown-up does not mean they agreed. It usually means nobody asked. Grown-ups have bosses, exes and relatives on the same apps you do, and reasons you cannot see from where you are standing.

3The idea

Who gets asked, and how

The test for who needs asking: if you could name them, ask them. A friend, a cousin, a teacher, a parent. A baby cannot answer, so you ask the baby’s parent. One face in a crowd of two hundred at a match is not going to be found from your post, so the crowd does not count.

How to ask.
1. Show them the actual photo, on the screen.
2. Ask: can I put this one up?
3. Wait for the answer.
4. A no means it stays on your phone. No arguing, no posting it later.
Asking without showing the picture is not asking.

4The idea

A sleepover, worked through

Say you took a photo at a sleepover. In it: your two friends, your friend’s little brother who wandered in, and her mum in the doorway with a tray. Four people, and you can name all of them. So all four get asked, and the little brother’s mum answers for him.

You show each of them the photo. Both friends say yes. Her mum laughs and says yes. The brother’s mum says no, she does not put him online. So you crop him out, show her the crop, and she says yes to that. Now it goes up. Total time: two minutes.

5Say it

The question that takes four seconds

Say it like a normal question, because it is one

“Can I put this one up?”

Show them the actual photo when you ask. “Can I post it” with no picture is not a real question.

6Decide

Your mum is asleep on the sofa with the dog on top of her. It is very funny.

Right. She will probably say yes. That is not the point. She may have a reason you cannot see — her boss follows you, she hates that photo, she just does not want it out. Asking takes ten seconds and she keeps the say.

She is asleep. She has not agreed to anything. You can name her, so she gets asked, and asleep is not an answer. And one friend is one screenshot from everyone. That is the next lesson.

Pick one to carry on.

7Build it

Three posts, who needs asking

Interactive

Who gets a say

Three photos, one at a time. Tap every person in each who needs asking before it goes up. A crowd at a match counts differently from your three friends at a sleepover, and the game shows you why.

Same test as before: if you could name them, ask them.

8Find them

Who needs asking before this goes up?

Tap the ones that count.

Find all 4.

9Do it

Before you leave this page

Pick one photo you want to post this week that has someone else in it. Before it goes up, show it to them and ask. If they say no, it does not go up. That is the whole exercise.

Tick it when you have done it.

Lesson done.

If they are in it, they get a say. Grown-ups too.

Next lesson: Nothing is only for friends

Badge 1 · What You Put Up

1.1The background gives you away 1.2Everyone in the picture has to agree 1.3Nothing is only for friends ★Badge Challenge

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