Ed Tech Conference #3: Digital Citizenship

Post date: Dec 04, 2019 9:16:47 PM

Thank you to everyone who came to our third Ed Tech Conference session! We talked about how to talk to our teens about social media and digital citizenship.

We started out by talking about what motivates students to act the way they do online and with their friends:

To continue the discussion, we learned about when teens brain's are ready for social media. Check out this video summary:

We also talked about some of the drama teens are dealing with online. This video does a great job of sharing their perspective in their own words:

Finally, we looked at how we can talk to them about responsible usage. We talked about things to do and avoid in conversations, as well as how to help students curate their digital footprint:

Sarah, Samantha and I put together a quick presentation that summarizes what we talked about today and gives us some resources to dive deeper!

See you on December 10 when Gretel von Bargen and Molly Petersen continue the conversation - we'll learn about leveraging social media at school!