Coming back from the ITSC conference has really prompted me to look at whether social networking sites are really appropriate in the classroom. Things like Twitter, Facebook, Skype, etc.... My gut response is "YES"! But, how? As with every app I find and every idea I concoct I want to know what are the educational standards supported by this application and how can it be implemented appropriately? I keep hearing this saying that we are asking our students to power down, and in some schools like ours "power off" as they walk into school. Since technology is so much a part of their lives this seems so silly for us "old-timers" to aspect. It is no wonder many of our students fail to see adults as able to relate to them. We really have grown up in two different worlds--although the stories are the same--the scenes are more futuristic! Does that make since?
Here is a collection of posts that I found thought provoking. I will continue to add to it as I find more!
http://leahlacrosse.blogspot.com/2011/06/skype-and-twitter-in-classroom.html
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