E-School News – Brandi Jewett
“Schools in ND are stepping up digital citizenship and vigilance to combat social media bullying. When Catherine Gillach started her career as a principal 16 years ago, the realm of social media had yet to get off the ground. The founding of Facebook was four years away. It would be 2006 before students were tweeting and another five years after that they would be sending pictures that exist for only seconds at time on Snapchat. “When I started there was nothing like this at all even in existence,” Gillach said. “I would say, probably the last seven or eight years … is when social media and all the branches of that took off. That’s when it really started to impact the schools.” Schools in Grand Forks and nationwide have long warned students about the dangers of the Internet, emphasizing they keep personal information to themselves, but increasing use of social media has kept that message of safety evolving and expanding.”(more)