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I became an “education influencer” seemingly overnight. When the COVID-19 lockdown started in the U.S. in spring 2020, I was already quarantined in Malaysia and could see how afraid many of my fellow American educators were. Although a native North Carolinian, I’d been a traveling educator for over 13 years and had already experienced teaching through the MERS and H1N1 pandemics. I began creating content on social media as a way to help and share my experience teaching through the pandemic. As my audience grew, educators began to use my content in their classrooms and students began to follow me online. I find this extremely fulfilling, because students today are all digital citizens, and, as caregivers and educators, it is our responsibility to show them ways to use social media not only for entertainment, but also for education and impact.
As educators begin to add more voices from social media in the classroom and to their lessons, including information provided by TikTok historians and turning to YouTube sources for engagement, parents may question the best ways to help their children navigate being introduced to unknown adults they could have access to online. Because of the potential risks anytime a younger person uses the internet—such as increased...
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