Should the alarm bell be sounded?
Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2025 10:12 am
Internet and social media have turned our world upside down with all the positive and negative effects (Facebook parties, Banga lists, threatening tweets, cyberbullying…). We seem to be struggling with the question of how to deal with this. This also applies to educational institutions.
Behavioral stimulation vs. behavioral regulation
Schools often respond by taking measures and by creating protocols that are often full of rules, with which they want to provide cover in a legal shadow play, rather than meaningfully steering towards effective use of social media. Of course you will continue to have excesses, but should schools wait for this? There is nothing stopping educational institutions from stimulating positive behavior, right?
Isn't it time for schools to determine the tactics together with parents and students? How are you going to play the game as an institution? Do you choose to attack and give students, teachers and parents the space to take initiative (behavioral stimulation)? Or do you play on the counter, do you wait and do you react to what is coming (behavioral regulation)? Every school is different, every team is different, or in other words, the truth will often lie somewhere in between.
While many schools put protocols in the closet, you can also ensure that the agreements are really implemented and passed on to all (new) students, parents and teachers, with the message: “ We trust you! " Of course it is good to make agreements about how you want to deal with each other with regard to social media, but is this enough?
Research has shown that a digital divide is threatening to develop between highly educated and low-educated people. Highly educated people use the internet for information, education (development) and career, while low-educated people mainly play games , chat and watch YouTube videos.
“Anyone who lags behind in their private lives or at work and does not continue australia telegram data to develop digital skills will quickly miss the boat,” says chairwoman Tineke Netelenbos of Digivaardig & Digiveilig.
Parents realize the truth through Netelenbos, they naturally do not want their children to miss the boat. Media education is an issue in the family in 2012. Even in so-called disadvantaged neighborhoods parents need media education support , but unfortunately it appears that their demand is not met, both online and in the neighborhood. Is there a role for schools here? Put it on the agenda and you stimulate much-needed media awareness and you increase parental involvement.
Does educational regulation help to focus on media literacy?
Schools may decide for themselves how they organize their education. The education program must be designed to achieve the so-called core objectives, which are determined by the Ministry of Education. Core objectives indicate what students must know and be able to do at the end of their school career. Politics can ensure that the core objectives are adjusted, as recently happened by making it mandatory for schools to provide lessons on sexuality and sexual diversity from 1 December 2012.
A large-scale adjustment of the core objectives does not often take place. The current core objectives still do not mention anything about media, let alone social media. Logical, because they date from 2006, which is not quite 'pre-history' for social media, but it is not much different (Twitter was founded in 2006). A few years ago, the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science did take a first step and three ICT-related core objectives were drawn up. Primary school pupils had to be able to:
Behavioral stimulation vs. behavioral regulation
Schools often respond by taking measures and by creating protocols that are often full of rules, with which they want to provide cover in a legal shadow play, rather than meaningfully steering towards effective use of social media. Of course you will continue to have excesses, but should schools wait for this? There is nothing stopping educational institutions from stimulating positive behavior, right?
Isn't it time for schools to determine the tactics together with parents and students? How are you going to play the game as an institution? Do you choose to attack and give students, teachers and parents the space to take initiative (behavioral stimulation)? Or do you play on the counter, do you wait and do you react to what is coming (behavioral regulation)? Every school is different, every team is different, or in other words, the truth will often lie somewhere in between.
While many schools put protocols in the closet, you can also ensure that the agreements are really implemented and passed on to all (new) students, parents and teachers, with the message: “ We trust you! " Of course it is good to make agreements about how you want to deal with each other with regard to social media, but is this enough?
Research has shown that a digital divide is threatening to develop between highly educated and low-educated people. Highly educated people use the internet for information, education (development) and career, while low-educated people mainly play games , chat and watch YouTube videos.
“Anyone who lags behind in their private lives or at work and does not continue australia telegram data to develop digital skills will quickly miss the boat,” says chairwoman Tineke Netelenbos of Digivaardig & Digiveilig.
Parents realize the truth through Netelenbos, they naturally do not want their children to miss the boat. Media education is an issue in the family in 2012. Even in so-called disadvantaged neighborhoods parents need media education support , but unfortunately it appears that their demand is not met, both online and in the neighborhood. Is there a role for schools here? Put it on the agenda and you stimulate much-needed media awareness and you increase parental involvement.
Does educational regulation help to focus on media literacy?
Schools may decide for themselves how they organize their education. The education program must be designed to achieve the so-called core objectives, which are determined by the Ministry of Education. Core objectives indicate what students must know and be able to do at the end of their school career. Politics can ensure that the core objectives are adjusted, as recently happened by making it mandatory for schools to provide lessons on sexuality and sexual diversity from 1 December 2012.
A large-scale adjustment of the core objectives does not often take place. The current core objectives still do not mention anything about media, let alone social media. Logical, because they date from 2006, which is not quite 'pre-history' for social media, but it is not much different (Twitter was founded in 2006). A few years ago, the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science did take a first step and three ICT-related core objectives were drawn up. Primary school pupils had to be able to: