kateinnovation

This week’s presentation covered the topics of Facebook and Myspace and this was one of the first innovations that I felt I actually knew something about.  I was a little surprised when I heard that this was one of the topics, as I didn’t feel that these innovations could be used in a classroom, especially with the lower primary grades. However, I can see the advantages of using these sites as a replacement for emailing pen pals or other schools around the world.  I still believe that they would work best with Upper Primary and High School students and teachers would need to monitor the students closely throughout these sessions. 

It was quite shocking to hear about the security and privacy on these sites as like many other people I completely by passed these when signing up.  As a teacher I feel that a lot of research would need to go into these innovations if they were thinking of incorporating them into their curriculum.  For example, how other schools are using social networking sites for educational benefits and how to protect the privacy of their students.