[Air-L] Missouri Outlaws Student-Teacher Facebook Friendship

[Mark D. Johns]

There was a previous thread on this topic here on air-l a week or two ago.

The news story is somewhat misleading in that the state law does not
create a ban, but directs local school districts to develop policies
for teachers' use of social media. Enforcement is with the local
district. The actual state law is pretty vague, and many local
districts have been developing policies already. I suspect the impact
will be minimal.
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On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Tatyana Lockot
<tatyana.lockot at gmail.com> wrote:
> What I'm also wondering is how this will influence the teaching process. If,
> say, I teach some sort of new media/online journalism class, how can I
> connect with students without using the tools that I teach to them in class?
> How can I share useful links? I realize this is more on a college/university
> level, but still.
>
> It is also interesting, and I'm with Seda here, how they will enforce the
> law? Check everyone's friendslists? Seriously? How can the lawmakers control
> such a huge number of online accounts? Or do they simply plan to make the
> schools responsible for monitoring the friendships?
>
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 3:39 PM, Seda Guerses <sguerses at esat.kuleuven.be>wrote:
>
>>
>> i am wondering if the following article about a new new law in missouri is
>> sign of a trend in the us or an exception?
>> it also seems that in the law, the lawmakers in missouri have introduced
>> types of communication that will be allowed and others that will not be,
>> which is based on conceptions of what is public and private. in any case,
>> its implications at first sight seem quite grave. it also raises questions
>> about how the law will be enforced?
>> s.
>>
>> Missouri Outlaws Student-Teacher Facebook Friendship
>>
>> A law signed into law last month in Missouri is making waves nationally,
>> this week. A small part of the wide-ranging SB54, makes it illegal for
>> teachers to be "friends" with students on any social networking site that
>> allows private communication.
>> That means teachers and students can't be friends on Facebook or can't
>> follow each other on Twitter for example.
>>
>>
>> http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/08/03/138932276/missouri-outlaws-student-teacher-facebook-friendship?sc=fb&cc=fp
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