Schools should be responsible for teaching students about safe social media usage. As students spend much of their time in school and social media is commonly used for schoolwork and entertainment, schools are well positioned to educate about benefits and risks. Some students experience harm from social media due to bullying or mental health impacts. While parents should also provide this education, not all are able or knowledgeable about social media. Therefore, schools need to fill this gap and assure student safety by teaching dos and don'ts for social media and how to prevent issues like cyberbullying.
Schools should be responsible for teaching students about safe social media usage. As students spend much of their time in school and social media is commonly used for schoolwork and entertainment, schools are well positioned to educate about benefits and risks. Some students experience harm from social media due to bullying or mental health impacts. While parents should also provide this education, not all are able or knowledgeable about social media. Therefore, schools need to fill this gap and assure student safety by teaching dos and don'ts for social media and how to prevent issues like cyberbullying.
Schools should be responsible for teaching students about safe social media usage. As students spend much of their time in school and social media is commonly used for schoolwork and entertainment, schools are well positioned to educate about benefits and risks. Some students experience harm from social media due to bullying or mental health impacts. While parents should also provide this education, not all are able or knowledgeable about social media. Therefore, schools need to fill this gap and assure student safety by teaching dos and don'ts for social media and how to prevent issues like cyberbullying.
TOPIC: Social Media – Should schools be responsible for teaching safe social media education?
Whose accountability it should be?
If schools and other educational organizations are allowing social media to be used in school, shouldn’t be they’re the one who’s responsible on teaching students about the safety etiquette of using it? When someone said the word “social media”, almost all of us had an idea about that, almost all people especially those what we called ‘millennials’ have an access on social media by using different platforms such as; Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and etc. We can’t deny the fact that social media have a crucial part of our daily lives especially when it comes to communicating with our love ones, and yes, social media is really a big help for us but we can’t also deny the fact that this thing might bring us to harm and depravity. We as a student, we can tell that we spend more time inside the school than our house, we spend more time with our teachers and fellow students. But the major question here is “should schools be responsible for teaching safe social media education?”. Social media is very common for the students nowadays as pastime when they’re bored and it was also commonly used when it comes in doing school works. It has tremendous used as it can be utilized via searching and knowing the things we don’t really know. So, in that scenario, schools really have a huge part to help making students safe while using social media, schools have responsibility to teach the students the benefits, harm and consequences that they might get in using different platforms. We can witness the awful things that are happening nowadays, there are scenarios when someone commit suicide because of the uncertainty and apprehensive he felt in using one particular platform. We can’t blame someone for his/her vulnerability because we have different level of sensitivity and we don’t know how words on social media might affect someone. So, the schools as considered as our second home should help and teach us when it comes to safe social media education by reminding us the dos and don’ts that we should always remember and will help us to prevent dangers to happen. As school teach us about things, we learn and acquire knowledges that help us in our total well-being, so it’s clear that schools should teach us about safe social media education as it has big role in our learning. It is said that safe social media education should be taught first in our house and school. We can’t rebuff that in reality, some parents are unable and has lack of knowledge about social media, and that’s when schools should take their action to help students in that scenario. “With great power comes great responsibility”, as we people have an ability to do and use something, we should also make sure that we do and use it for our own good as well as the people we socialize with. To wrap things up, I conclude that schools should be responsible in teaching the students about safe social media education as it will help them to reassured the safety of each other. Schools and other educational organizations are allowing social media to be used in school, so they should be responsible on teaching students about the safety etiquette of using it. Also, schools should be one of the most prominent factors in assuring that there’s no violence happening such as cyber bullying between students. We can’t avoid those uncertainty and tremble things in social media to happen but, we can prevent and lessen it by teaching students in school about that. The changes, learning and action should start not only in our house, but also in our school.