#94: Instagram Threads and 'Furries': Tips for Teachers

In today's episode I discuss two very popular topics that are getting a lot of press at the moment: Instagram Threads and children who identify as 'furries' (animals). It's important for teachers to know how Threads could potentially be used to support teaching and learning, as it could (potentially) become a more child-friendly, tamer and 'safer' social media application than Twitter currently is. At the end of the episode, I tackle the second topic, 'furries', by providing some tips for teachers who have to teach children who identify in this way. Paul Joseph Watson's original video, THREADS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCAzn5AlHww&t=4s Instagram Threads: A Fun Tool to Enhance Teaching and Learning! [Blog Post]: https://richardjamesrogers.com/2023/07/09/instagram-threads-a-fun-tool-to-enhance-teaching-and-learning/ CAT SPAT Parents and teachers warned not to ridicule schoolkids who identify as animals [The Sun, 24th June 2023]: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/22801958/parents-teachers-warned-schoolkids-furries/ ‘Child identifying as cat’ controversy: from TikTok video to media frenzy [The Guardian, June 23rd 2023]: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/jun/23/child-identifying-as-cat-controversy-from-a-tiktok-video-to-media-frenzy The rise of the 'furries': How schools are allowing kids to identify as cats, horses and dinosaurs - and teachers are 'failing to question them' [Mail Online, 20th June 2023]: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12213579/How-schools-allowing-kids-identify-cats-horses-dinosaurs.html Check out my award-winning book for teachers - The Quick Guide to Classroom Management: 45 Secrets That All High School Teachers Need to Know: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07TVCWFZ4 Check out my second book entitled 'The Power of Praise: Empowering Students Through Positive Feedback': https://www.amazon.com/Power-Praise-Empowering-Students-Pedagogical/dp/1689738995