Character Education for the Digital Age
"Should we teach our children as though they have two lives, or one?"
That's the question Jason Ohler poses in "Character Education for the Digital Age'.
Current policy norms--blocking large portions of the internet in schools or fragmented, case-by-case approaches to cyberbullying and inappropriate online activities--treat students as if they live two lives: the traditional, digitally unplugged life at school, and the digitally-infused life outside of school.
We're missing an enormous opportunity to help students live one, integrated life, by not using