How Social Media Blurs the Black and White in Education

Starr Sackstein:

My students might have a coronary if I fail to answer an email at 10pm on a weekend.

With the creation of email, Facebook, Twitter, and Google+, it's near impossible for the human part of a teacher to go without notice in settings less familiar than school. Comfortably seated with my iPad and iPhone on either side of me and my Macbook Pro serving as heating pad to my belly, I'm in bed conferencing with my students using powerful new social mediums.

Whether answering quick project direction questions, putting out fires of uncooperative technology when an assignment is due, or chasing down newspaper leadership to make sure deadlines are met, I'm certain some of my older colleagues would writhe with discomfort at how available I am to my students.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at March 13, 2013 1:28 AM
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