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It’s clear that students are entering a very different world. Students are now digital citizens, and their digital footprint, which is updated on almost a daily basis, will most likely have a major impact on their future. But, who is informing these students about this? Who is teaching these students the proper ways to use social media?

Provide them with authentic projects to complete for authentic audiences in which they can make a positive impact on the world as they learn. Help them share their success stories through blogs, social media sites and other forms of communication. Recognize the importance of your students’ digital footprints and show them how to create a successful and positive online image.

Over the last 30 years, we’ve systematically eliminated young people’s ability to participate in public life. They turn to technology as a relief valve, as an opportunity to have a space of their own. As a chance to be public. And, of course, we shoo them away from there too.

Traditional aspects of power are asserted through technology. It’s no longer the realm of the marginalized, but the new mechanisms by which marginalization happen

Technology is situated within a context of capitalism, traditional politics, and geoglobal power struggles.