Social Responsibility and a Biblical Worldview

 Teachers play an important role in modeling behaviors including social responsibility. This involves in-school and out-of-school environment activities and conversations. Over the past decade, social media and personal technology have grown and connected individuals. This is also true of technology that has been implemented and designed for classroom use. Social responsibility is an issue that many people say needs to have tighter restrictions and monitoring. Teachers are obligated that when feasible they should engage in conversations about moral and responsible interactions along with conflict resolution, social and emotional learning, and collaborative communication.

Students need these skills to effectively communicate, and become successful citizens and moral characters of God. Allowing students to view situations and problems that create cohesion and acceptance in the world around them is a valuable lesson. Students should understand that even behind a screen, it is still mandatory that they have rules and expectations to follow.  Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring praise to God (Romans 15:1). Social media can cause issues in social and emotional conduct as well as issues in responsibility. Students need to be shown digital citizenship correlation in relation to the issues that might arise. Digital citizenship is the skills and knowledge needed to be effective in the increasingly social media environment, where the distinction between producer and consumer has evaporated and the blurring between public and private worlds create new ethical challenges and opportunities for children, young people, and adults (Walters et al., 2019). It is our responsibility as servants of God and as educators to observe and train students to properly connect with others using social decorum and appropriate collaboration.

 

King James Bible. (2001). Holy Bible: English standard version.

 

Walters, M. G., Gee, D., & Mohammed, S. (2019). A literature review: Digital citizenship and the elementary educator. International Journal of Technology in Education, 2(1), 1-21.

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