The idea was to be proactive and the day was organized around speakers, What I loved is that they approached the dilemmas with ideas like Kindness interventions and ideas for creating pride in the school. Many of the students chose to address Fake accounts or cyberbullying and worked on creating a viable solution which they could implement in their schools. When I was the keynote speaker at a Digital Leadership Summit in Wisconsin a few years ago, teams of student leaders from across the District worked together using the Design Thinking model to address a concern they had in their school after listening to two keynotes and hearing students share about how they use tech to start not-for profits or make a difference in the world. Design Thinking: Digital Leadership for Good Check out the modifiable template and lesson plan. What is awesome about this is that it allows kids to empathize, as well as think positively and proactively about the power at their fingertips. I love the guest post that Carly Spina wrote for Alice Keeler’s blog, Shifting the TikTok Trend: Students Have the Power! In the lesson, Carly asks students to think about what is trending, how the trend impacts school communities, and what they would like to see trending. Their insights will be valuable as they have a personal interest in ensuring that the reputation of their school isn’t tarnished. If your school has a digital leadership team or any school leadership teams, it may be a good idea to invite them to think about how to approach the situation BEFORE it becomes a situation. I have often thought about that incident and what we could have done to be proactive. I remember lots of our student leaders having differing ideas about what to do and then coming to a consensus about an action plan. When we had a negative incident several years ago with YikYak (I wrote about it in Social LEADia and blogged about it here) we took to student leaders to help solve the problem. All it takes is one student to engage in this behaviour…And so I have set out a few ideas and welcome yours. To not mention it or think about how to address the issue proactively can put your school and students in a situation where you are suddenly having to mitigate some real legal issues and/or some traumatic events. The kids engaging in these pranks are far fewer than the kids who are either perplexed by the whole situation, or like the many kids I know, ignoring it altogether.Įven so, this is a real dilemma for schools isn’t it? To mention the trend on the announcements, may be drawing attention to something that may not actually have hit your community yet. They must be horrible.” And I tell the truth for every child that for whatever life experiences have made them mean or rude, there are nine who are empathetic and respectful and awesome. As a high school teacher going on my 28th year of teaching, people always say to me, “Oh my gosh, how can you teach those kids. And that’s the problem with the media attention some of these challenges are getting. If I didn’t teach in a high school, I would look at this and be horrified and terrified all at once.
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