Should schools be blocking social networking?

By Ayla Smoak

Are schools understanding everything that

they are blocking form the students?

Some of these blocked sites

can be used for engaged learn

for their pupils.

Why block something that will make your

students excited about the lesson?

Teachers want their students to

be engaged/excited for their lessons.

These kids are.

So just let them get excited

about learning. Unblock the

social networks!

Redefine what it means to have

engaged learning.

But do using these social

networks like Skype really

work for class lessons?

Just ask them.

Yet most schools don’t understand

this.

Schools are blocking

networks that they don’t even know what they

can use them for.

The web enables global

collaboration, so why block it?

Class lessons can be on debates , opinions, etc.

Teachers can arrange debates

with U.K. students on the

American Revolution.

Like these kids are doing.

Using these blocked sites gives skills needed for future jobs!

A fun way of finding out of

what is going on in the outside

world.

School leaders should be

questioning themselves on what is really happening.

Information is flowing out of

classroom instead of in.

Social networking like

Skype is the new age learning!

So why are we blocking

our future? !?