Should Schools Block Social Networking Sites?
Over the past five years, the response of most school administrators to social networking sites– YouTube, Facebook, MySpace, etc.– is simply to restrict access on campus. In a recent piece in Slate, Nicholas Bramble argues it’s time to open access to these sites. Rather than worry about the potential, and often times very serious, concerns teachers and site administrators usually have with this technology, Bramble argues schools need to tap “the huge amounts of intellectual and social energy kids devote to social media” and channel it toward promoting...
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