About that TikTok nightmare

by Angela Stockman

Angela is facilitating Education Expeditions beginning November 8, 2021 and April 4, 2022

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If you’re lingering anywhere near K-12 education right about now, then surely you’ve heard all about the Devious Licks Tik-Tok challenge that inspires kids to vandalize bathrooms, hit their teachers, and expose their nether regions in school. 

Good times.

I can’t help but wonder how a bit of Gamestorming might help educators get at the root of this problem or at the very least, establish better relationships with the kids who are causing the trouble and the ones who are witnessing and perhaps--suffering in the face of it. 

How often do we ask students to share what they are seeing, saying, doing, and hearing in the face of troubles like these? And I don’t mean tossing questions at a class from the front of the room and calling on those who raise their hands. I mean handing each kid a thick stack of sticky notes along with the reminder that they don’t need to put their identifying information on any one of them before sharing their honest perspectives one (note) at a time. Ensuring that every learner in the room is participating and posting up that full catastrophe might reveal things that help us understand and serve students better. 

At the very least, we’ll gain insights we may not have had before--especially if we take care to ask what they think and how they feel about all of this. 

I fell into Gamestorming because I was seeking better ways to decenter myself as a learning facilitator in the K-12 public, private, and charter school context. There is no better time to Gamestorm solutions with students than right now.

Angela is facilitating Education Expeditions beginning November 8, 2021 and April 4, 2022