Teachers, school administrators and college professors are using social networks like Facebook and MySpace to interact with their students outside of school. Education blogger Jared Stein told the Dallas Morning News that "students can be creeped out or feel repulsed when a teacher uses Facebook to emulate what students are doing and go into their personal space. They're inviting the students to accept them as a peer."
Tell us: Should teachers avoid their students online? Why?
Tx,
Maureen
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Nikkky
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Re: Should teachers talk to their students online?
Aug 9, 2010 7:22 AM
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It is good to have a possibility to contact your teacher through the internet.
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Re: Should teachers talk to their students online?
Jun 7, 2010 2:39 AM
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I think social media can help teachers and students to improve the quality of classes and students could ask questions when they're at home and not only in school. But it always depends on the way someone uses social media, teachers shouldn't try to control the private life of their students and make them feel uncomfortable.
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Re: Should teachers talk to their students online?
May 12, 2010 8:12 AM
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as for me. it is very comfortable to have ability to contact your teacher through internet)
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Maureen
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Re: Should teachers talk to their students online?
Oct 29, 2008 7:59 PM
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Check out this interesting blog post from a communications professor who says Twitter "helps us to expand the walls of the institution." He includes some ways Twitter can help teachers (and students)...
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Re: Should teachers talk to their students online?
Oct 21, 2008 12:46 AM
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Hi Maureen,
Young people communicate on SN sites! The logic seems to say that, if we want to communicate effectively with our YP, then this would enhance the two way process. It is all about how it's done.
It's about transparency and benefits versus risk. Also, I see it as similar to real life, in that the relationship is the key to its success or failure.
Many young people organise their lives on SN sites and we are missing the point if, as adults working with young people, we don't work out how to connect with them appropriately and in a manner that they would find acceptable.
Fraser
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Should teachers talk to their students online?
Oct 16, 2008 7:50 PM
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Teachers, school administrators and college professors are using social networks like Facebook and MySpace to interact with their students outside of school. Education blogger Jared Stein told the Dallas Morning News that "students can be creeped out or feel repulsed when a teacher uses Facebook to emulate what students are doing and go into their personal space. They're inviting the students to accept them as a peer."
Tell us: Should teachers avoid their students online? Why?
Tx,
Maureen
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