View these videos before proceeding.

1. Listen to this male student complain to his friend about his low grade for a university assignment. Listen up to the 2:06-minute stage.

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N39mnu1Pkgw]
Video: Why can't I just use Google? (3:12)

2. Listen to what Michelle Bachmann, a Republican Party member of the United States House of Representatives, and an unnamed Fox Channel presenter say, and what Rachel Maddow thinks about that.

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLx7vVheM6M]
Video: Media Literacy Clip (2:50)

3. Watch this news item about a cyber-bullying incident.

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QREFr263SRc]
Video: Six students arrested for Cyber Bully Incident (2:11)
 

NOW CONSIDER THIS:

What if all of the people involved in these video clips, the male student, the member of the US House of Representatives, the Fox Channel presenter, the six students and the deceased girl, were all current or past students of your school? Would that be a crisis for your school? Why?

The problem we are presenting to you is that your school has not transformed its technology plan to systematically address the challenges of digital literacies, including media literacy and digital citizenship. Yet you are educating students in a digital society! To avoid tragedy you are tasked with the responsibility of developing a school-based strategy for education in a digital society.