I feel that educators have a duty to teach our students social responsibility. Shared values and social responsibility are what keeps society running. The goal is education is to prepare students to be successful in the future. Today that means making them successful in a 21st-century learning environment. According to Gulec & Yalcin (2020), when it comes to responsibility, “in order to create a healthy social structure, there should exist common values, and these values need to be transferred to next generations.” Students need to understand that they are a small part of a much larger picture, and social responsibility is taught. Once they understand digital citizenship and how to be a good citizen, social responsibility is next. According to MacBury (2017), “Our students are connected personally, globally, and digitally. The greatest positive benefits of cultivating our students’ awareness of their larger responsibility have been the ripple effect in identifying new ways to take action as a school community — a global digital school community.” Students who are good citizens and possess the characteristics of good citizens can easily translate that into being responsible citizens; they need to be taught. In the future social responsibility may change as more and more people are having a hard time finding common values.
Gulec, S., & Yalcin, A. (2020). The value of responsibility in the point of view of the 5th grade students. International Journal of Educational Methodology, 6(1), 123-133. https://doi.org/10.12973/ijem.6.1.123
MacBury, K. (2020, February 11). How to Teach Kids Social Responsibility in a Connected World. https://www.commonsense.org/education/articles/how-to-teach-kids-social-responsibility-in-a-connected-world.
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