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John Pearce

South Korean schools are remotely disabling students' smartphones | The Verge - 1 views

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shared by John Pearce on 01 Apr 14 - No Cached
  • John Pearce on 01 Apr 14
     
    "Following small-scale trials, Korean officials are reportedly moving forward with a plan to install remote management software on students' smartphones. iSmartKeeper is an app that restricts what services and apps students have access to. With the app installed, teachers have the ability to lock phones down in one of six modes. Educators can choose to lock all of the phones in the school, allow only emergency calls, allow only phone calls, allow calls and SMS, or turn off specific apps. The idea is to prevent distractions in class, and iSmartKeeper can also allow access to only a single app, ensuring that educational apps can still be used as teaching aids."
Judy O'Connell

Teaching the Facebook generation - for once the media gets it right! - 1 views

www.smh.com.au/...generation-20110227-1ba19.html

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shared by Judy O'Connell on 28 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • today's teachers are finding it harder to keep their distance
  • For each new arm of social media that opens up, so do new dilemmas for teachers, students and parents
  • Most teachers and schools have had to wise up quickly to cope with the rapid and massive uptake of Facebook and mobile technology in the past 10 years
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  • Some educators say the social-media bans in schools are overkill and privacy fears have overshadowed the positive educational opportunities social media can offer students.
  • It is known, too, that students also access social-networking sites and post to them during class time via mobile phones or by circumventing the network blocks.
  • ''Ineffective policy is to ban use; prohibition has never worked,''
  • doesn't matter how impoverished a young person may be, they will have access to social networks daily, they find ways to get online through public libraries, internet cafes, at their friend's house or on their mobile
  • Common advice for teachers is to be familiar with privacy settings on social-networking sites, perhaps maintain a private and professional account (although this is not permitted on Facebook) and to set a search-engine alert for their own name, so adverse mentions can be detected early and dealt with.
  • So can, or should, a teacher be Facebook friends with a student?
  • Judy O'Connell on 28 Feb 11
     
    "Schools have had to act fast to try to manage the widespread use of Facebook and other social media by students and teachers"
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