Social Media and School Consequences
N.Chausse
Introduction
It would be hard to find someone in this school who is unfamiliar with Snapchat, Instagram, Twitter, or YouTube. Even if you don’t use any of these apps yourself, you definitely have heard of them and know friends who use them. This is true all across the United States. One relatively recent issue that has come up with so many kids using social media on their own computers, iPods, and phones is that kids are getting in trouble for things they post to the internet outside of school. Should they? You need to be the judge! For this project, you’ll be investigating social media posts that caused trouble at schools. You’ll look at a variety of stories about student use of social media to answer the question: should schools provide consequences when student social media could be dangerous or make another student feel bullied?
Task
After completing your research on this topic, you can choose to present it in one of the following ways:
1. Write an expository essay explaining your position on the question.
a. Essay should be double-spaced, size 12 font.
b. It should have a title
c. It should clearly present your stance on the question
d. It should use examples from your research.
2. Create a Google Slides presentation explaining your position on the question.
a. Remember to fill your slides with graphics and pictures, and just a few words.
b. It should clearly present your stance on the question
c. It should use examples from your research.
3. Create a vlog (no more than 2 minutes) explaining your position on the topic.
a. Check out Mr. Chausse’s Vlog Guidelines.
b. This is ABSOLUTELY an example of a time where you need to make an outline of what you want to say before you say it. Make sure you answer the question!
c. This vlog should be no more than 2 minutes once they are edited.
d. It should clearly present your stance on the question
e. It should use examples from your research.
Process
1. Use the links in the “Resources” section to explore different examples of student social media posts clashing with school faculty.
2. Form your opinion: should schools provide consequences when student social media could be dangerous or make another student feel bullied? You should use your research to form your opinion.
3. You will be paired with someone with the same stance as you on the issue. You will help each other complete the task, though both partners must help with all stages of the project.
4. Complete the following pages with your partner. These will help you organize a solution to this social media issue:
b. Gathering evidence (use examples from articles/resources)
c. What causes this problem? (Use your own interpretation combined with the research)
d. How are we currently dealing with social media and school consequences?
e. How should the way we are currently dealing with this problem be changed?
f. What else can we do to tackle the social media bullying problem more effectively?
Resources:
· Edweek social media controversies (be sure to click some of the links to the actual articles)
· Monroe Student Suspended after Social Media Post
· Michelle Carter Found Guilty - Texting Suicide Case
· Students sue school after “liking” racist Instagram post
· Watch What You Tweet: Schools, Censorship, and Social Media (Click links to see articles)
· Nielsen Guide to Social Media and Kids
Nielsen provides lots of information on technology. Their most famous reports are on how many people are watching a particular TV show.
Evaluation
Conclusion
Through this project, you have both explored a modern social media issue and created a product using technology in a productive manner.
Standards
New York Technology Standards.6-7.7.Interdisciplinary Problem Solving.Solving interdisciplinary problems involves a variety of skills and strategies, including effective work habits; gathering and processing information; generating and analyzing ideas; realizing ideas; making connections among the common themes of mathematics, science, and technology; and presenting results.
CCSS.ELA.RI.7.1 Cite
several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly
as well as inferences drawn from the text.