Teaching the Facebook generation - for once the media gets it right! - 1 views
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today's teachers are finding it harder to keep their distance
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For each new arm of social media that opens up, so do new dilemmas for teachers, students and parents
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.