Social networking cannot be ignored by educators. - The Diigo Meta page

• 14 Nov 08
  

  Marcia Philbrick

  web2.0 SocialNetworking

  • National School Boards Association survey “that announced that upward of 80
    percent of young people who are online are networking and that 70 percent of
    them are regularly discussing education-related topics
  • It is essential that educators help steer students through the challenging
    issues that arise from using social networking sites.
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  • • SNS as “mediated publics” or a “environments where people can gather publicly
      through mediating technology
    • four properties that are quite unique to them:
      
    • Persistence. What you say sticks around
    • Searchability
    • can copy a conversation from one place and paste it into another place.
    • In mediated publics, not only are lurkers invisible, but persistence,
      searchability, and replicability introduce audiences that were never present at
      the time when the expression was created.
    • We need to engage students in conversations around these issues, not ignore them
• 11 Nov 08
  

  Steve Hargadon

  web20ineducation ningineducation

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