What is consent?

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What is consent?

Consent has become something we should talk about more openly. Talking about consent develops an awareness and a responsibility towards actions with others. Using these resources you can discuss sexual, digital and parental consent and the law with your class.

Learning intentions

Explore the definition of consent with young people using Mentimeter
Understand how consent works by examining the tea analogy
Discuss how to use digital consent by examining a range of scenarios.

Level

Junior cycle
Senior cycle

Duration

40 mins

Modules

Team up
Self awareness and personal skills
Relationship skills

Activity

Before watching the below video 'Tea Consent' use Mentimeter or post-it notes to ask the question 'What is consent?'

After watching the video, ask 'What is consent?' again, compare and contrast the findings.

Preparation for Mentimeter
Log in to Mentimeter or create an account. Use the text analysis template to create the question 'What is consent?' Modify the template as you choose and share the link with the class.

Link to Mentimeter

A mentimeter-like graph with words that represent what consent means

My World Survey 2

Almost half (47%) of young adults reported in Jigsaw's My World Survey 2 that they had been touched against their will or without their consent and 20% said they had been forced or pressured to have sex.
There are laws that apply to sex and consent in Ireland.
The age of consent in Ireland is 17.

Play

a screenshot of a still from Tea Consent

Tea and consent

Digital consent

Ways we give consent and give permission online has 4 actions:

Active – also known as explicit consent
Passive – also known as opt-out consent
Assumed – also know as implicit consent
No consent given.

Use the worksheet below in class in order to consider how your young people would organise and classify the digital consent scenarios i.e What consent action is used for when a friend adds a young person to a group chat without their permission?