Digital Smarts - Posting Online –Lessons Learned

Middle-school students who are part of teacher Bill Ferriter's #sugarkills project recently learned some valuable lessons about writing for a public audience when a critic challenged the accuracy of one of their posts. In a blog post written about the class project, Ferriter discusses the lessons learned and shares his growing concerns about using an open forum to garner an authentic audience for student work. This is something you might want to take a look at if your children are posting their work online for a class project, or if they are sharing their own material on a personal blog. It is important to understand what can happen and appropriate ways to handle disagreeable commentators.