Tairawhiti e-Learning in Education

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Wednesday, January 18, 2006

Blogs - Is their a problem for our teens?

Follow this link to view a good article on the moral panics surrounding teens and blogs along with the other social networking tools.
Many schools are banning any type of online communities that are not heavily monitored.
This type of reaction is worth looking at, and in particular we need to counter balance the discussion if we are to enable institutions to support and embrace (1) students having their own learning management tools under their control, (2) student-contributed technologies in institutions, and (3) students being encouraged to form their own informal learning networks.
My teenage daughters have taken to them along with all their friends without any input from me. Check her site out http://www.piczo.com/kokonati1?g=5978687&cr=2 I'm constantly telling her to tone it down.
What do you think?

Sorry about the change of blog name to "Waimawharf" as the old ymawharf was confusing some people.

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