Digital Literacies and the Danger Zone

     I feel like the most important thing about understand digital literacies and the reform movement involved in changing our schools to become more in-tune with the technology is helping everyone understand what correct usage really is. The "Danger Zone" is when teachers or students misuse medias because they aren't sure the effective use of certain applications, programs, and tools to provide information. Even Facebook started out just a function of Harvard, and it changed so much when the world got involved. Now we see people posting pictures that are inappropriate or berating each other on the internet, we see a heathen culture emerging that makes it okay to say and do and "YOLO" every bad decision we make. We see young men and young women persecute each other via text messaging, tweeting, and pinning. Technology is an amazing thing - like a new gift, but we can't abuse it and we can't make excuses for other people's behavior because they are not able to use it appropriately. It is unfair to teach without it because it dismantles the norms and when students enter the workplace or higher education they will be held accountable for the information they did not absorb when they were in high school or during their formative years.