This chapter talked about social networking including Facebook and Ning. I found this interesting because I had only ever thought about these networking cites as personal tools and social purposes. I have always thought as Facebook as a teacher's worse nightmare, their students sitting on facebook talking to friends and things instead of learning. But this chapter really talks about Facebook as a means for education. It gave me a new way of thinking and teaching. I really liked how they give examples of how to use this in the classroom and some of the benefits of doing this.
As a future teacher I hope to be able to use these networking sites in my classroom. The thought of attempting this is kind of scary for me because I am afraid students will take advantage of this and use it to talk to friends and things instead of doing what they are suppose to be. I would maybe try to avoid this by having them do things on facebook outside of class so that if they do decide to talk to friends and stuff they would not be wasting classtime.
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