Seeking Approval Online – Subverting the Selfie
Common Sense Media recently posted an article about how posting pictures of themselves online is both building up and breaking down our kids’ self-image...
Lauren Gehr, an English teacher at a South Carolina high school, says that kids' use of social media is affecting their academic work -- including using "social media speak" in classwork. In an article written for teachers but with useful hints for parents, Gehr shares tech tools like NoRedInk and FlipGrid to help kids drop certain habits from their work, such as abbreviating words, using slang, and writing too quickly.