Thinking Machine / Think Social Networking for Education - 1 views
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National School Boards' Assocation says that Social Networking technologies should be adapted for use in the classroom.
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Andrew Tucker on 11 Jul 11These facts are very interesting and I had no idea that this was the case! These statistics prove that we, as teaching professionals, cannot ignore the impact that social networking has on the kids that we will be teaching. They are going to be using these tools and using them a lot, so we should reach them on their level.
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Daphne O'Donnell on 11 Jul 11I'm surprised by the fact of 50% of students talk online about hw. Honestly, I thought it would be less than that.
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Facebook - a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them.
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Everyone knows my love of Facebook by now. I really think Facebook can be used in so many ways: groups, posting school work as statuses, posting links to websites and articles that can be used and shared, etc.
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Facebook is such a widely used social networking tool, I think you would be very hard-pressed to find someone who does not know how to use it. Kids can be steered in the direction of using it for educational and introspection purposes which they probably didn't consider. I love the idea of creating a page for a book character.
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Andrew, I like Facebook too. And I think that students and adults alike figure out how to use it with ease. I just worry about the over exposure for younger students, for instance the advertisements and so on.
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I think there is a ton of potential for Facebook to be used in the classroom but like Daphne said, could it lead to overexposure or to unwanted sites/people/ideas that are out there? Maybe somehow setting up very private settings would work best for teacher-student collaboration.
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Twitter 4 Teachers wiki
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