Retaining an explicit emphasis in the new standards on including «opportunities for students to study relationships among science, technology, and society» (Hicks et al., 2014, Table 1) would open the door to consideration of a set of issues that every future teacher ought to be thinking
about, for example, the power relationships enacted online as manifest through sexism, racism, anti-Semitism, and homophobia; the quality of the discourse and information that circulates there and the effects of rumor on reputation; notions of public and private in a digital age; cyber bullying and suicide; copyright and
plagiarism; ethics and professional responsibilities related to social media; and a host of other topics and
questions that a critical media literacy approach could raise regarding technology and citizenship education.
Throughout his career, Prince has raised intriguing
questions about the line between
plagiarism and «recycling», recently running into controversy for exhibiting (and selling) large - scale printouts of other people's Instagram posts.