I thank you so much for that question, because it actually speaks to what I was saying a minute ago about the teenaged brain. We know from research that our brains do not fully develop until we're often into our early twenties.
I'll give you an example. In my classroom with my social studies students, we have a blog, and my students post a lot of their assignments, their writing, and their thinking online. We do television shows about Canadian history. We do all kinds of really creative things with technology. I try to model that in positive ways as often as I can. When the students are blogging, their assignments are posted before they go live. I will call them over to my desk and they'll look at their posting in the draft form. There have been many times when even though the students all knew that I was going to see what they'd written, they have posted something—perhaps something got the better of them—and when I have called them over and asked if they really wanted something to go live, they have looked at what they had posted in the draft form and have told me they were really embarrassed and that they just hadn't been thinking.
Now this is not to let kids off the hook, but we do need to understand the nature of teenaged brains. They're not fully formed, and the kids don't make really great relations in terms of causality, that connection between cause and effect. That doesn't happen until we are in our young adulthood, and even then we don't always do a great job. We need to understand that very well.