Krutka et al. (2014) found similar obstacles to navigating online reflection among pre-service teachers, but also found that these teachers valued peer feedback and the collaborative aspects of online communication.
"If our descendants do not know the truth they will make the same mistakes again," she wrote in the introduction to her series of online reflections.
Student perceptions of the instructional strategies adopted in their online courses, including reflections of the online course design, have not been adequately examined in such contexts.
"What happens in the online world is a reflection of society at large, as the dangers children face online are mirrored in the risks children face in their homes, schools and communities," says Ndiaye.
"What happens in the online world is a reflection of society at large, as the dangers children face online are mirrored in the risks children face in their homes, schools and communities," says Ndiaye. "Protecting children online is part of a growing global movement to keep children safe from violence, abuse and exploitation in virtual and physical life-settings everywhere".
There's a growing body of research showing that social media networks such as Facebook and Instagram can actually trigger depression in many people as they compare their lives with those of their increasingly expansive and superficial online network of 'friends.' Yet as you already know, most of what we put online isn't a reflection of our life as it is.
Most broadly, with troubled teenagers and model youth alike, adolescent online behavior is a reflection of what teenagers' social lives have always been: friendship, gossip, flirting, transgressing and keeping it all — good and bad — from parents.
What we end up imagining, producing and enabling online ultimately materializes the reflection of the human collection.
These online discussions are a reflection of those happening offline, where conversations happen freely".
