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A teachers union says it’s fed up with social media’s impact on students
(www.nbcnews.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Digital literacy is as important as literacy itself in todays world. The computers and the internet have become interwoven with just about every facet of everyday modern life. I don’t see how we can educate people for that same world if education system tries to pretend we are still in the pre-digital era.
If we want to equip children with the skills to navigate a digital world we need to figure out how to thoroughly integrate digital skills into education.
I went to school in the time before mobile phones were really a thing at all. We still still had plenty of ways to goof around and plenty of ways to be pressured. Part of being educated is being taught how to behave and how to handle life’s challenges.