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Why Facebook is Unblocked at ISB | The Thinking Stick
When considering the relative merits of Facebook, there are some very obvious negative uses as well as positive uses, and a whole lot of grey area:
Benefits
Hans Christian Ruud: "Alle" er på Facebook, men hvor er læreren?
Norwegian post:
"I think these are exciting ideas, but I do not know if I completely agree that teachers should be friends with their students on Facebook. I think that it is important that young people have a place where the teacher does not "monitor"..."
CBC News - British Columbia - Guidelines wanted for teachers on Facebook
"Assistant superintendent Chris Kennedy uses Facebook to teach, but says current teachers and students should not be Facebook friends"
Social Network Sites: Public, Private, or What? : The Knowledge Tree
Social network sites (SNSes) like MySpace, Facebook, and Bebo are ubiquitous and today’s youth are spending a great deal of time using these sites to access public life. How is public life shaped by social technology? How are the properties of mediated publics, like social network sites, different from unmediated publics? This article seeks to explore the social dynamics of mediated public life in order to help educators understand their role in socialising today’s youth.
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2. The Internet mirrors and magnifies all aspects of social life.
When a teen is engaged in risky behaviour online, that is typically a sign that they’re engaged in risky behaviour offline. Troubled teens reveal their troubles online both explicitly and implicitly. It is not the online world that is making them troubled, but it is a fantastic opportunity for intervention. What would it mean to have digital street outreach where people started reaching out to troubled teens, not to punish them, but to help them? We already do street outreach in cities - why not treat the networked world as one large city? Imagine having college students troll the profiles of teens in their area in order to help troubled kids, just as they wander the physical streets. Too often we blame technology for what it reveals, but destroying or regulating the technology will not solve the underlying problems that are made visible through mediated publics like social network sites.
» Intruding. In Public. Bud the Teacher
She was hesitant to invade the students’ “personal” spaces, space that they were sharing in public. She didn’t want to intrude.
Intrude.
I don’t believe that we have the luxury of ignoring our students when they share in public. I don’t believe that we should duck away from engaging them for fear of finding ourselves in awkward situations.
» Intruding. In Public. Bud the Teacher
She was hesitant to invade the students’ “personal” spaces, space that they were sharing in public. She didn’t want to intrude.
Intrude.
I don’t believe that we have the luxury of ignoring our students when they share in public. I don’t believe that we should duck away from engaging them for fear of finding ourselves in awkward situations.
Teachers and Facebook
A great post on Facebook and also some great comments!
Reminds me a lot of my facing facebook post which I mention and link to in the comments
The Blacklist: Educators on Facebook
Great Danah Bord quote:
What would it mean to have digital street outreach where people started reaching out to troubled teens, not to punish them, but to help them? We already do street outreach in cities - why not treat the networked world as one large city?
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What would it mean to have digital street outreach where people started reaching out to troubled teens, not to punish them, but to help them? We already do street outreach in cities - why not treat the networked world as one large city?
Ideas and Thoughts from an EdTech » Blog Archive » Why parents should have Facebook accounts
See Sharon Elin's comment
geek.teacher » Blog Archive » Friendonomics (or: Why I’m not on Facebook/MySpace)
Please keep in mind that I’m not arguing against the very concept of Facebook itself. I’m just saying it’s not for me. Like David Truss argues,
And another thing: What to write?
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We NEED to be online with our students. We need to interact and engage with them in appropriate ways. We need to be ROLE MODELS that show them what appropriate behaviour is on the digital frontier.
Do we want this frontier to be a ‘Wild West’ or a pursuit of knowledge, like ‘Deep Space’? We won’t get the latter by sitting back and letting our students explore the void on their own.
A Story About A Tree | Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts
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If we (educators and parents) don’t participate with students online, then we run the risk of having misguided or inexperienced friends, or worse yet bullies, becoming greater influences than us in their lives. Gordon Neufeld calls it ‘peer orientation’ in his book: Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers
. This does not mean that we get ‘chummy’ with our students online… we are simply a significant adult presence, modeling appropriate behavior, and connecting with them in a meaningful, respectful way. The internet is no place for an unsupervised playground!
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