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Anne BubnicThe digital world can be tricky for teachers.Those who grew up in the pre-Twitter era are often left casting about to learn how to use new technology and keep up with students. Others, comfortable with using text messages and Facebook to make connections, find themselves questioning, as they navigate the new frontier, just where students fit in.
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With such rocketing popularity, some teachers have started using the new tools to build rapport, update students on classroom activities and keep an ear to the ground with the youths they teach.But potential pitfalls remain, including the appearance of impropriety and other ethical issues. And sometimes it leads to criminal cases.
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Donna DesRochespros and cons of 'friending' students
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"From my standpoint, the cell phone, the Twitter accounts — those are the equivalent of pen and paper in a school. Just like everything else, technology and the proliferation of it is good and it's necessary and it's going to happen. So as long as there are guidelines and parents get engaged, I don't see that there would be much of a problem."
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Will RichardsonStudies by the National School Boards Association show roughly three-quarters of students ages 9 to 17 with Internet access use social-networking tools weekly.
With such rocketing popularity, some teachers have started using the new tools to build rapport, update students on classroom activities and keep an ear to the ground with the youths they teach.
But potential pitfalls remain, including the appearance of impropriety and other ethical issues. And sometimes it leads to criminal cases.
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