This short article discusses the downfalls of a few content creators on YouTube whose careers were ruined after choosing to post content that was not appropriate or was offensive in some way. This list is just of YouTubers whose videos caused outrage, and not YouTubers whose careers were ruined by tweets from the past. This list shows just how important it is for everyone on the internet to really think through what they put on the internet and how they present themselves online.
Microsoft Word has become a standard in education. Once we stopped learning how to physically write, we began learning how to well, write. For the sake of convenience, we started being required to type out our writing assignments so our teachers could actually read them. Once we started writing longer papers, we started learning how to format them. Until college, I only really used Word for English assignments, however, in my Academic Success class that I took last year, we learned a few ways to use it as a study tool for other classes as well. I find that in my college classes, quite a few teachers use Word documents for their lectures and a lot of teachers and professors I've had use it to write their quizzes and exams. Something that we also learn about as we write lengthier papers on Word is Copyright. It has been ingrained into our brains to never ever plagiarize anything since elementary school. We first learned about plagiarism as copying ...
I love this article! I definitely think that it's important to explain to our students about the risks in posting our entire lives on the internet. Especially since these kids are growing up as "digital natives" and are constantly online.
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