Using Digital Dilemmas to Explore the Complexities of Online Life
Channel: Connected Learning Alliance
Date: 2022-08-31

Young people are constantly navigating digital dilemmas, which don't always have right or wrong answers. How much connection is too much? What does it mean to be a good friend in a social media world? How should we respond to online hate speech? Educators are exploring ways to help youth explore digital dilemmas to foster the skills and dispositions necessary for digital life. Common Sense Education has long-partnered with Carrie James and Emily Weinstein at Project Zero at Harvard to explore the issues facing adolescents in a connected world, and effective pedagogical approaches to teach students digital citizenship. Based on James and Weinstein's research on the impact of networked technologies on the lives of adolescents, Common Sense Education includes digital dilemmas about relationships and civic online life in their widely-used Digital Citizenship Program. Students also learn unique thinking routines that serve as thought structures to use alongside digital dilemmas. With this approach, educators have been using digital dilemmas to help students develop skills and dispositions to respond to real-world dilemmas in thoughtful, effective, and empathetic ways.

Learn More At https://www.commonsense.org/education/digital-citizenship/digital-dilemmas