I. Educational Opportunities
A. Connecting Classrooms
1. Availability of distance learning, like moodle sites
2. Instant messaging, video conferencing, and chatrooms as a link
3. podcasting
a. as a teacher's resource to reach students
b. as a communication tool for and between students
B. Collaborative Projects
1. Blogs
2. wikis
3. web based data sharing projects
II. Educational possibilities
A. Using existing technology in a new way
1. cell phones- like iphone
2. myspace.com and other social sites
3. ebay for economics
B. Future technology advances in social networking
1. endless possibilities; Second Life
2. hypothesis for the future of social networking in education
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equal access? using technology to cheat? cyberbullying? legal to discipline?
Just wanted to say that I like the way you think. ;) Also, are you responsible for the Autobot pic? I think you are...
I love the autobot. Floyd you are on the go. Impressive.
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Educational Challenges of Social Networking
Management
Like the television revolution, which brought electronic boxes into schools in the 1960s and was supposed to turn classroom teaching on its head, computers were rolled into schools in the 1990s and connected to the worldwide web with the expectation that education would never be the same. http://www.mywire.com/pubs/EducationNext/2006/01/01/1328779?&pbl=82
Time
The average American spends more time using media--an iPod, computer, radio, television, etc.--than in any other wakeful activity, almost nine hours a day. http://www.mywire.com/pubs/TheFuturist/2007/01/01/2481136?&pbl=82
Cyber bullies
Cyber-bullying gathers pace in US http://news.bbc.co.uk/nolpda/ukfs_news/hi/newsid_6245000/6245798.stm
Cyber-bullying by students could result in suspension or expulsion in the future after changes to Ontario's Safe Schools Act passed unanimously in the provincial legislature late Monday. http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/06/05/bullying-safe-schools.html
Childnet International has launched an updated version of Know IT All for schools, its interactive CD-rom highlighting online safety issues for young people and free to schools..../continued on Guardian Unlimited (U.K.)/
http://www.mywire.com/pubs/GuardianUnlimitedUK/2007/06/18/3777023?&pbl=82
Ryan Patrick Halligan was bullied for months online. Classmates sent the 13-year-old Essex Junction, Vt., boy instant messages calling him gay..../continued on San Francisco Chronicle http://www.mywire.com/pubs/SanFranciscoChronicle/2007/02/20/2855927?&pbl=82
My Space Information (cyber sharing)
In a matter of months, this online phenomenon went from zero users to millions. It was hugely popular with media-loving teens and young adults, whose participation drew in even more people..../continued on San Francisco Chronicle/http://www.mywire.com/pubs/SanFranciscoChronicle/2006/12/10/2254117?&pbl=82
Expense and Equity
"The best evidence of the concern over the digital divide was the speed with which the federal government interceded to help close it." http://www.mywire.com/pubs/EducationNext/2006/01/01/1328779?&pbl=82
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