Inappropriate Use Digital Media - Jeremiah Starr

Unfortunately, I've had the chance to see the inappropriate use of digital media in multiple circumstances. With schools transitioning to online class meetings and completely digital work over the last year, we've seen an increase in students communicating with each other inappropriately. Some of these occurrences included the sending of gifs, or links to videos that were not appropriate for students to be sending to one another. As a school, we did our best to be proactive to these situations. We attempted to inform students about digital citizenship. However, many of these situations mirrored interactions that the students had seen or talked about outside of the school setting. This will be an interesting and difficult problem to address moving forward. Especially as technology and interactions continue to advance and change.