\u201cPPTA members believe that teachers and schools should not be left to face these challenges alone. The education sector needs tools, training and resources necessary to equip both educators and students to navigate digital culture as safely and as critically as possible,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n
PPTA president, Chris Abercrombie \u2013 a history and social studies teacher \u2013 told Checkpoint teachers were seeing a rise of neo-Nazi symbols, neo-Nazi language, Holocaust denial, anti-Semitism and misogyny.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve had students … deny the Holocaust in class when we\u2019re talking about it. I\u2019ve had students write essays about that kind of stuff, talk about not everyone deserves human rights, those kind of things there, and it\u2019s increasingly becoming more and more common. I wouldn\u2019t say it\u2019s in every school and every student, of course, but it\u2019s more common and we\u2019re hearing about it more and more,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Abercrombie said misogynistic behaviour was also a concern.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur women\u2019s committee did a submission [about the Deepfake Digital Harm and Exploitation Bill] and it talked about young boys taking upskirt photos of students and teachers. So this is becoming a significant issue. The online fakes, all of these things fall into that online extremist behaviour,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Abercrombie said students were learning extremist views online.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe algorithm\u2019s a powerful thing and it pushes these young people in certain directions. I mean, I talked about my YouTube \u2013 I often watch documentaries, I\u2019m a history teacher, and my YouTube algorithm, when I watch documentaries about World War II, suggests some really quite unpleasant things for me to watch,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Abercrombie said teachers needed urgent help to deal with the issue.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy concern is we\u2019re going to see what\u2019s happening like we see overseas. There was a recent survey of German teachers. You know, half of them had seen their students do neo-Nazi symbols in class.<\/p>\n
\u201cNine per cent had been physically assaulted by students espousing far-right views. You know, and 14 per cent of teachers in Europe said they don\u2019t want to talk about democracy because they are getting pushback from their far-right students and their parents,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The Ministry of Education said it was still considering the union\u2019s report on extremism and it recognised concerns raised by teachers about the impact in classrooms of harmful online content.<\/p>\n
The \u201crefreshed curriculum\u201d included tools to help students recognise misinformation and extremist content, understand its impact and to make informed decisions.<\/p>\n
The ministry said it also supported schools through a range of partnerships such as Netsafe, Network for Learning and Bullying-Free NZ.<\/p>\n
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