Sunday, September 18, 2016

Tweeting your students...

One of the recommended videos for this week was The Social Media Revolution (2011). You can either click on it above or you can watch it below:
Do you love social media? How do you use it in your life? Do you use it with students?

Although I am really interested in using technology to help my students learn, I personally feel that as educators, we need to be extremely cautious of the blurred lines that can occur with social media.

The type of communication with our minor students should be able to be completely monitored by our schools and companies. Yes, many people use Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc. to communicate with others. However, many of these accounts are really designed for mostly personal reasons, and are not really accounts created by the school for the school.

Email can be more easily monitored by a school. I wouldn't only have access into my account; other people would be able to make sure my communication is appropriate with students. When it stated in the video that we are going to go away from giving out email addresses to students, I feel that this may not be the right direction to go in. Communication within the school (and about the school) should be monitored by the school.


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