Soooo I just realized I am short one blog, typical, so I am adding one more. I found an article that I felt related both to the class and my plans for the future. I would like to work in a school setting someday and the article I found is about using social networks in the classroom. There were some really good ideas that I think students would really relate to and enjoy. It basically describes how to safely integrate Facebook into the classroom.
First it explains how the teacher should make the correct priacy adjustments, that way when they become “friends” with their students they will not see anything that wouldn’t be correct in a teacher/student relationship. It mentions creating “groups” for certain classes and then having a discussion board for assignments and projects. The article discusses the “richness” of the wall of the group where teachers can post pictures, videos, links, etc. which help to further instruction when teaching the students. It also stresses discussing online safety with your students, such as proper online behavior, keeping your password private, not talking to strangers online and treating others with respect.
I thought this was very relevant to our current time and where the classroom is somewhat already headed. There are already online classes, why not make them apart of Facebook? It is something that people use everyday it only makes sense for it to be part of the classroom. It wasn’t that long ago that I was in high school and middle school, and even then the classroom was nowhere near as tech-savvy as it is now becoming. I think the most modern thing we had in the classroom were computers, but half the time we weren’t allowed to be on them anyway during class. Teachers taught with power point and also used media like movies, but it all seems so primitive in comparison. It really makes me wonder what the classroom will be like by the time I am working in one, which, hopefully, is in the next few years.
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