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Facebook Camp
Did you know that as a city Toront0, Canada has one of the largest Facebook penetration rates in the world. In a recent count the number has been said to be close to 700,000 members. Much has been written about Facebook recently. Big business scorns it; too distracting. Parents don’t like it; too distracting. Schools block it; too distracting. No matter what side of the fence you sit on with regard to this network you may find it interesting that the first Facebook camp was held this summer in T.O.
From what I understand, it was packed!
What is FacebookCamp?
So now I ask…………
What makes applications and communities like this so compelling?
Why has this social network taken off while dozens of others have failed?
Knowing that close to all high school students are a part of some sort of online social network, what responsibility do schools have to teach literacy around these new mediums and skills to safely navigate them?
What do you think?
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August 14th, 2007 at 5:53 pm
I think we need to teach literacy around facebook.
Last year in Quebec and Ontario there were quite a number of incidents in the news of students being expelled/suspended/punished for things they did on facebook outside of school.
Kids have a tendency to think they are invincible - why should facebook be any different? We need to teach them that yes, teachers can read what you post in groups so it’s probably best not to make a group about how much you want to, er, ‘do’, your teacher. Or on how much you hate a certain student.
I think it is another platform through which we can work on social skills with our kids - and such an important one since much of their social life is defined and made visible through networks like facebook.