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Personally, I hope all teachers blog, keep their blogs public, and model some of these principles:
- responsibility of course
- asking open and honest questions about education
- that ALL people have first amendment rights, including teachers and students
- that no one should be content with the status quo
- that everyone has the right to be controversial
- that everyone should be brave in their ideas, in their writing
- that we talk about how and why we make the ethical decisions we do.
I am concerned that we will cow teachers into either not sharing their ideas or only publishing those things that are completely “safe.” That would be a detriment to the field of education and society.
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Great commentary by Steve Dembo. You're right, as teachers we should be held to a higher standard.
It’s a major concern to me, because how can a teacher tell a student with any credibility at all that they should clean up they’re MySpace profile, if their own has racy pictures or crude jokes on it? It’s just hypocritical.
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