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5 Reasons You Should Be Teaching Digital Citizenship

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 [http://insiderlouisville.com/news/2014/01/16/jcps-officials-investigating-posting-inappropriate-photos-students-instagram/ ].

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.

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Recently, a town-wide power outage resulted in my son’s school being ‘in the dark’ for about four hours.  Most classes didn’t need to skip a beat – it was a sunny day and electricity is not require...