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"Students buzzed about the latest uproar on Instagram. Anonymous sources had posted a “questionable”–and NSFW–list for multiple public schools in our city on Instagram, leading to distraught girls, viral Twitter reactions, and an investigation. This type of cyberbullying and reckless use of digital communication is rampant among teens, but this recent episode was only unusually due to its elevated publicity."
Beth Dichter's insight:
Do you believe that it is important to teach Digital Citizenship in school? Given all that happens online and how many of our students do not make appropriate decisions about what they are posting online, be it images or words, the need for this is evident. This post discusses "five reasons why schools should take a lead by promoting digital and social media literacies curriculum, and promoting digital citizenship inside and outside of the classroom." The reasons include: * The Gap is Growing - as in the gap between what students do at home and what they could do at school is vastly different (at least in many schools which do not allow mobile phones to be used). * Digital Footprints are Easy to Leave...and difficult to erase. How easy is it to find information on your students using Twitter, Instagram or any of the social media tools used by students? How often is that information such that they would prefer that collleges not see it? Three additional reasons are provided with discussion, all of which provide food for thought when working with students on this issue. 
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interesting article on working with digital natives!