My world on the web
While browsing teacher TikTok, I’ve seen a small child in a polka-dot coat clap along to a rhyme in class and another group of young students do a choreographed dance to a Disney song. I’ve seen a teacher list out the reasons their kindergartners had meltdowns that week, and I’ve read poetry written by eighth-grade students. There is room for debate about the benefits and pitfalls of all of these videos, though no one yet knows how the students featured in them will feel as they age.
“It so greatly depends on what is being shown and why,” Sharkey says. “If the content isn’t helpful and productive for student engagement or content, it should probably be discouraged or prohibited, due to the potential risk to students.”
I feel that these ethical questions are not necessarily new, but I wonder if algorithmically driven platforms like TikTok only amplify this?
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