| |
 |
 Schools Vs Social Networking Sites
If a child becomes involved in a dangerous situation because of his/her internet use, parents would likely sue the school, district, teacher(s) involved, and win. Although this would be the rare occurence, it would, nevertheless, be a decisive factor in allowing use of social networking at school.
On the other hand, schools which do not acknowledge and integrate the new technologies used by children and youth relegate themselves to becoming progressively more irrelevant.
Many popular social-networking Web sites are rapidly becoming a problem for schools. The sites, fraught with online predators and distracting to students, are frequently blocked by school computers. But is this action taking the concern too far? At the same time some people think that in their rush to protect, educators also ignoring the educational potential of social-networking sites.
|
|
|
|
