I am not trying to convince anyone to move away from something that works for their community. Yet more and more schools are banning devices, and many teachers and schools think it works wonderfully. But I would rather give the benefit of the doubt and be wrong than not do that and be wrong. We are all doing our best.Īnd maybe some people aren’t. The person at the airline is no different than a teacher in the classroom. Nor would a teacher want to hear from a student or parent complaining about a class without ever having a conversation. Why? Because I would hate for someone to come to a keynote and blast me on social media afterward because they didn’t like something I said. In either situation, I don’t want to get on the plane. Yet, the person at the counter was never thinking, “How can I ruin George’s day!?” The plane was broken, or the weather was so bad that flying wasn’t safe. ![]() I am much more mindful of what I post since I have had children on my own because I see what I share online as a “diary” that I am in some way leaving to my kids.īut, for example, there were times when I would go online and complain about canceled or delayed flights to leverage networks against a company to benefit somehow. ![]() There are a lot of concerns about how students use social media and phones, but are adults any better? Are they modeling the hopes online that we have for our students? I included myself in this scenario. To be transparent, I am struggling with what I wrote in that original post today, not because I disagree with anything I said then, but because I wonder how much has changed in our world since it was written.īut I want to embody this quote (Often attributed to Einstein but is from an unknown source) and share my own thinking struggles with you openly: In this month’s blog revisit, I am looking back at a post I wrote originally in 2017 on using social media and mobile devices in the classroom.
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