A Lesson on Digital Citizenship
Sometimes it is hard to explain to students that what they do online can be damaging, disruptive and dangerous. It is easy to fall into the trap of false security that the screen is your protection and the keyboard your weapon. Adults can fall into this trap as well. It's easy to do on social media because most assume that no one can "see" the creator of content or an account. That’s not the case as we will discover here. A social media term caught my eye this week: review bomb. It’s new one for me. Before disclosing what this term means. Let's give a little background information. About mid December there were rumblings surrounding the drama that was stirred up by writers who use the platform Goodreads. If you don’t know what Goodreads is, check it out. In a nutshell it is a platform which allows avid readers to share their reviews of books, good or bad, by a rating ...