Facebook Should Not be Used for a Teacher.Student Connection

The relationship between the teacher and the learner should always remain professional. In the world of technology such as Facebook, it would be unsuitable for the teacher and the learner to become involved in each other’s personal lives, as this can impact into the teaching or any potential disciplinary processes than may need to be addressed.

Duff, White & Turner, LLC “ Schools Should Punish Students for Misuse of Networking sites” (Document D). If Schools have dealt with a number of incidents concerning improper use of internet sites should be banned. I believe school computers should be used only for homework and school purposes. The internet being an open network, which includes big Social Networking sites such as Myspace and Facebook of course students are going to pay more attention to that. Schools should restrict all those websites , although there are ways around in which students use to bypass. Schools around the United States have entered into an education code in which it authorizes to expel, suspend, or removal of school. Even though some students might say the school can't get into what they do after or outside of campus. The school can engage in taking charge of conduct resulted in disruption of the school environment. The school may lawfully discipline any student for such

School safety and student wellness are paramount in an educational learning environment; consequently, this is the expectancy of all internal and external stakeholders adjoining the school community. Meanwhile, there are numerous reports of female teachers implicated in inappropriate sexual behavior with students published in the news daily. The sexual misconduct by female teachers vacillated from sexual harassment, abuse via emails, sextexting via cell phones, to illicit conversations via the Internet (Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, and WhatsApp).

One of the most popular social networks is Facebook with a hundred millions of users, who create their profiles and become “friends” with other members. They share photos and videos, post status updates, exchange messages, join certain groups of interest as well as receive notifications when others update their profiles. It is a great communication tool, especially for families and friends living far away. In addition, Facebook helps meeting new people, because frequently it’s easier to start conservation on-line than face to face. With all these positive aspects there are several drawbacks. First is cyber-bullying: there aren’t many moderators to control what had been said and some could become innocent victims

However, “the big difference in today's electronic world isn't what at risk children may say - but where they say it. For many school districts the answer is social media monitoring.” (Richez, 2015). However, it is not as simple as it may seem. Privacy and trust in online social media monitoring is a very controversial issue. With all the security leaks and hacks that have happened, online users are more than ever reminded of the need to protect their information.

Module two discussed how teachers should handle social media in regards to contacting students. A few scenarios presented in this video included a young, female teacher befriending her students on Facebook, a social networking website, and receiving crude comments on her picture from them, and a male teacher posting negative comments about his blog. The female teacher ends up telling her principle about inappropriate conversations her student had been trying to spark with

Howard, K. (2013). Using Facebook and Other SNSs in K-12 Classrooms: ethical considerations for safe social networking. Issues in Teacher Education, 22(2), 39.

Because adolescents are growing up with more access to social networking, texting and instant messaging on various sites have become prime means of communication. While this is not necessarily bad, many people feel the need to over-share things about their personal lives online. More and more people are using Facbeook and more and more employers are using Facebook to scope out potential employees. If there are inappropriate pictures and comments all over someone’s Facebook page, they are more likely to not receive the job. Some students get in trouble for things they post on Facebook and Twitter. Some users are beginning to notice this and have started deactivating their accounts to regain a sense of privacy. CNN’s article “The anti-social network: Life without Facebook”, states that some students who are trying to maintain a professional image for future employment are deleting their pages.

In the article, More teachers are having sex with their students. Here’s how schools can stop them by Terry Abbott pointed out that the social media and text messages contributed to sexual misconduct in schools, in which predator’s teachers have been misusing technology as a bait to persuade their victims to develop a cyber sexual relationship, in which in the most cases, young students were sexual abuse by predator’s teachers. For instance, last year, at least 281 school employees — 36 percent of those accused or convicted of an inappropriate relationship with a student – were reported to have used social media to start or continue those relationships. (Abbott). It meant that schools and parents are not having control to prevent sexual relationship between teachers and young students, since most of young students at the ages 12 to 17 have a cellphone and social media account. The result of this open gateway, Terry Abbott stated “My firm, Drive West Communications, has been tracking news reports of sexual misconduct by educators for more than a year”, and his investigation find that male school employees were two-third of sexual misconduct cases reported in 2014. In other hand, in the

In Christine Weiser's article, she discusses the school districts that decided against the use of these social media platforms. Through various interview excerpts, she reveals why educators dislike social media usage in the classroom environments with the main concern "that [they are] creating an avenue for increased bullying". There is also the concerns "about protecting student

Facebook is a well know social networking site that has taken all over the world with over 500 million people using the site. Social networking sites such as Facebook share information about the user over the Internet, where it can be freely accessed by anyone. This is where issues of privacy to the individual arise. As

There are things in the great world of Facebook that kids should not be exposed to at a young age, and it also can get quite annoying to older people who are using Facebook the way that it’s intended to be used. Facebook was created by Mark Zuckerberg, a Harvard undergraduate student, who was into creating websites. He started off with making a website that permitted students to see what classes their friends were in, so that they could see their friends in the class and want to join also. Later he wanted to transform his idea to an even greater website that would transform the world of social networking forever. He made a website that connected Harvard students to each other, in which he called Thefacebook. Thefacebook quickly spread

Stacy’s situation is just one of many recent cases in which aspiring and practicing educators have faced unfortunate consequences because of the way others perceive the use of social networking tools such as MySpace and Face book. (Carter, Foulger & Ewbank, 2008). ” (www.pbworks.com, page 1)

We live in a generation where it has become common to send inappropriate pictures to people who we have just met. We live in a generation where we are so dependent on technology that it is as addictive as a drug. Fellow students, let me ask you all this question, would you want to see our future generation, our future leaders, and our future role models acting like this? What is this world coming to?! In order to prevent this, I firmly believe that the correct and safe use of social media must be taught in schools.

As a teenager logs onto the internet for homework, the focus is lost. Why? Well, out of like infinite possibilities and opportunities of internet browsing and blogging, the teen is most likely on Facebook. Facebook, or as it was originally called www.thefacebook.com, is a website where users post and share photos, profiles, and basically anything that in a foreign world was considered “private”. Although, it is not only trendy teens surfing this site, business men marketing, musicians