Nicholas Bramble recently wrote an article for Slate putting forth the argument that schools should not only stop blocking social networking sites like Facebook but they should find ways to integrate them into the learning. This is old news in the edublogosphere but it is a good sign that the message is hopefully reaching more people. I note that Slate is a “sort of” mainstream publication as it is a pretty progressive online magazine.
Check out the article.
David Carpenter is an Instructional Technologist at Alexandria Country Day School in Virginia.
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