Preparing Kids for Online Conflict

by ParentCo. March 24, 2016

Rather than encouraging kids to live in an echo chamber of like-minded online friends, or to shrink from online disagreement, we need to teach them how to disagree respectfully.
via Teachers Against Trolls: How to Prepare Kids for Online Conflict on JSTOR Daily


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