For Jade's presentation, I chose the following article that ran in USA Today on 10/26/06:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2006-10-25-school-blogs_x.htm
The article is entitled "Students, officials locking horns over blogs" by Alan Gomez and talks about the fact that all over the country school board administrators are bringing their attention to MySpace and Facebook accounts of their students. They are usually tipped off by parents or students about some derogatory or explicit comments/images that are on another student's page. What students don't like is that they are being governed by the administrators of the schools, having their free speech/expression being stepped on by someone other than their parents. Some students have gotten expulsions from school because of the material on their page. What do you think about this situation? Do you think administrators are going too far with their authority, becoming the pseudoparents of the students? Or do you think that students should be more cautious about what they share on their social space?
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Kathryn,
This is a very interesting post/article. A few weeks ago I was able to attend a faculty meeting with Dr Dawson to discuss the Facebook and MySpace profiles of preservice teachers at UF. Most of the faculty in the room (all except Dr Dawson) wanted to implement policy and punishment for these profiles if they are deemed inappropriate. It was saddening to hear that instead of wanting to educate our preservice teachers about professionalism issues and ways to use their profiles for networking and to share important information, they want to have policy and guidelines for these public domain profiles.
I think your article will elicit some great discussion!
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