Schools Urged To Teach Youth Digital Citizenship : NPR

Schools Urged To Teach Youth Digital Citizenship : NPR

In the wake of a Rutger University student's suicide, researchers who study youth and the Internet say schools need to do a better job of teaching kids the basics of digital citizenship.
Freshman Tyler Clementi jumped off a bridge a few days after his sexual encounter with another man was broadcast online. Clementi's roommate, Dharun Ravi, and Ravi's friend Molly Wei were arrested on invasion of privacy charges. They haven't said why they allegedly broadcast the video, but by all accounts, they were good students who had no history of cruel behavior.
I think that the technological revolution has in some cases outpaced schools' ability to keep track of it.
- Jim Steyer, Commonsense Media
"I think it's a case where good kids can do terrible things," says John Pelfrey of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society and author of Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives.