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Growing Up Fast in the Digital Age

My heart hurts right now.

For an upcoming PD my principal suggested that we do a session on Nexopia – to see what our students are up to at home and to gain more insight into their lives. Being the “techno teacher” it was my job to seek out these profiles and prepare a way to show them to staff. I knew I wouldn’t like what I saw…. but I didn’t know how much I wouldn’t like it.

In hind sight it may not really be as bad as it looks. Swearing, making sexual innuendos that they really have no idea they mean – basic teenage posturing. We all did it to some degree as kids. But even when we did it publicly – it was private. We did stupid things, and then we were done. Thanks to the internet they do stupid things, and it’s recorded for posterity. Read the rest of this entry »

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