Facebook in classroom, bad idea?

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abubnic on 2009-09-14

Social networking sites are extremely popular among students, but there appear to be two competing trends for social media in school classrooms and on university campuses. Some teachers and lecturers are embracing Facebook and Twitter as new ways of communicating with students, and some universities and school boards are banning access to social networking tools entirely, citing security concerns.

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04 Nov 09

Laurie Hnatiuk
- need to develop critical skills to select information and to make decisions
  about information
- technological skills are best learned as an integral part of a lesson, not as a
  separate class
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- - using commercial products like Facebook and Twitter can lead to distraction and
    procrastination.
  - It's just too easy to get doing other things rather than the hard work of
    intellectual work,"
  - "And Twitter's even worse."
  - Pychyl says many of the functions teachers are looking to Facebook to provide
    can be found in social software specifically designed for education.
  - "Going to Facebook is like saying 'Let's go do our work at the arcade,'" he
    says.
25 Sep 09

Keith Krieger
From Canada, pro and con. Links to uses of web 2.0 in the classroom

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16 Sep 09

Sharon Murray
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15 Sep 09

Julie Elliott
Social networking sites are extremely popular among students, but there appear to be two competing trends for social media in classrooms and university campuses.

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14 Sep 09

Anne Bubnic
Social networking sites are extremely popular among students, but there appear to be two competing trends for social media in school classrooms and on university campuses. Some teachers and lecturers are embracing Facebook and Twitter as new ways of communicating with students, and some universities and school boards are banning access to social networking tools entirely, citing security concerns.

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Steve Ransom
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- educating students about appropriate use of social media will need to be a part of the curriculum.
  - Steve Ransom on 2009-09-14
    
    No kidding!!
13 Sep 09

arllennium arllennium
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10 Sep 09

Rob Reynolds
Facebook in classroom, bad idea?

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Phil Taylor
Facebook classroom ictag plan
- Classroom management systems, or e-learning systems, such as Blackboard and Desire2Learn, are software packages designed for teachers to develop course material and for students to research online, communicate and submit and collect their work.
Lorie Shuck
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- There's even a Facebook group to ban social networking sites in schools.
Ann Lusch
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John Evans
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- However, Davidson says educating students about appropriate use of social media will need to be a part of the curriculum.
- They need to develop critical skills to select information and to make decisions about information. They also need to be critical about who they meet on the internet and what they tell them, [and] what they post."
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- - technological skills are best learned as an integral part of a lesson, not as a separate class
Kristine Goldhawk
Facebook classroom teaching technology
Donna DesRoches
Social networking sites are extremely popular among students, but there appear to be two competing trends for social media in school classrooms and on university campuses.

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Charles Fowler
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Peter Beens
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