One small reflection on Jenkins, H., Clinton, K.,
Purushotma, R., Robison, A. J., & Weigel, M. (2006). Confronting the
challenges of participatory culture: Media education for the 21st
century. Available http://digitallearning.macfound.org/atf/cf/%7B7E45C7E0-A3E0-4B89-AC9C-E807E1B0AE4E%7D/JENKINS_WHITE_PAPER.PDF
We in schools are placed
in a tricky situation. We are
bounded by duty-of-care considerations and can see that dangers of allowing
access to social networking sites. If a
student was cyber bullied because they posted their contact details on a site
in school time and on a school computer, who’s at fault? What if the bully was doing the bullying using
the school issued iPad and on the school Wifi?
Should the school take responsibility?
Yet, social networking is
developing into a necessary part of education to completely cut all student
access to social networking is to hinder their educational opportunities
and learning.
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