Todd Selva
The answer is simple. Anyone who has paid attention can see how our world has changed since the introduction of the commercial internet, and even more rapidly since the introduction of the smartphone. It’s confusing enough for us as adults to navigate in this new frontier of constant online notifications, newsfeeds, and social media. But these tools—and they are ultimately just tools—are not going away. The answer is not to hide from them, but rather to learn to use them mindfully, so we are their masters and not the other way around.
As our students enter adolescence, we must prepare them to enter this online world with skills in critical and ethical thinking that are vitally necessary to use these digital tools beneficially. The Cyber Civics program will help guide our students toward having a solid foundation to build on as they begin using networked technology more and more in high school and into college.
Read more here:
http://blog.waldorfmoraine.org/2017/09/cyber-civics-digital-literacy-for-middle-schoolers/
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