Inappropiate Use Digital Media

I have a couple of examples regarding inappropriate use of digital media. The first happened years ago. A colleague posted a picture on Twitter of students standing by a screen giving a presentation. His Tweet asked if or what our district teachers taught for presentation skills because our kids lacked these skills. I was furious for a couple of reasons. First of all, I felt that he should not have posted the picture of the kids in that negative light and secondly, I thought it was completely inappropriate to question what or how we teach presentation skills on the Twitter platform. I sent him an email expressing how inappropriate I thought his Tweet was and also included that most of these kids are petrified to be in front of their peers! He could have just asked us what and how we teach presentation skills. He did not need to put that picture and question on a social platform.
The second incident that comes to mind just happened recently. A colleague posted a rant on Facebook bashing teachers at our school for not attending an event. She didn’t bother to fact check, and she included all teachers. One team of teachers chose not to go because of scheduling and not wanting to be rude taking some kids out and minutes later bringing a new group of students in. Once again, I think this should’ve been addressed face to face and not on social media.
When posts like these get onto social media, they become bigger and broader. Opinions come out from lots of people who don’t know all the facts, and some use it as a catapult to venture into other negative things about our school.