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Social Networking - At What Age?
Social Networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook, & MySpace, are some of the most popular and fastest growing communities on the web. Each site has a similar minimum age restriction (13 years old), however, one would be naive to think that none of our students under the age of 13 have accounts and use these sites.
So the questions are:
- What should we teach students about these sites?
- When should we teach students about the requirements & safety issues regarding these sites?
- What to do about students that want to use these sites at school?
- What to do about students who are under 13 & have accounts?
Good questions! I think a better question is at what point do we require teachers to use social networks? I mean come on, I'm a big believer in social learning, I would love to have each and every one of my students follow me and each other on Twitter, but it would never happen as long as I'm the only one doing doing this. Know what I mean?
ReplyDeleteWell, I'm thinking that 5th grade would be a good time to start show this stuff to kids. Yeah, safety and BS detection are good places to start.