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Mark outlines the real risks of students using ICT without an appropriate understanding of digital citizenship. He cites an example of an over-the-top reaction of a school to a student using a mobile phone, where a 14-year student ends up being arrested for phone use.

Asking a student to put aside a device like a phone that they are starting to see as innate or natural, is a recipe for conflict

 

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