Wow! Growing up online is a very blunt documentary with so much going on and shares various perspectives. Many things I watched enraged me and made me think. I wish we could show our students a video similar to this to get them talking about these internet issues.
I fully support bringing programs or instruction time to the classroom that teaches students how to behave online and make the online society more realistic to students. I don't want to be like the english teacher in the video and be left in the dark when it comes to technology and computer sense. However, I still don't know how I feel about putting a computer infront of students during the whole school day.
Cyberbullying is a topic that keeps reoccuring in our education classes, and it seems to be something that we future teachers should plan for. It's awful that students have acess to such scary things like suicide, so I think now more than ever we need to teach them how to make right and responsible decisions.
When watching the parents' perspectives during the video, I found myself agreeing with many of their points. I certainly don't want my students to see inappropriate pictures and then think it's okay to participate in the activities shown in the pictures. I think parents should be active in their students' internet life and make the internet society a part of their "realistic" life at home.
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