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

Mon Aug 15 12:16:10 PDT 2011

Meanwhile, here's some news from the BBC with completely opposite symptoms.

BBC - Study finds third of teachers have been bullied online -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14527103

So who is the victim here really?

On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 6:20 PM, Alejandro Tortolini <alemtor at gmail.com>wrote:

> I would like to remark this words from Patricia´s email: "When did
> teachers became dangerous?", because I think they are the key.
> If whe think that teachers are dangerous, what must we do with the
> school? Who will teach our kids? Are teachers dangerous in social
> networks, but no in the classroom?
> Seems to me that there are a lot of hard thinking to do about this
> issue, previous to make a law.
> Best,
>
> Alejandro Tortolini
> Scitech journalist - Teacher
> Buenos Aires, Argentina
>
>
> 2011/8/15, Patricia Rossini <patyrossini at gmail.com>:
> > But if the connection is already made, even for trading public messages,
> the
> > door to private messages will be open. So, the prohibition must be for
> about
> > the connections, not the kind of relationship established by them. It's
> not
> > possible to control that!
> > I also think it's really weird. Why would that protect the students? when
> > did teachers became dangerous?
> >
> >        Patrícia Rossini
> > (32) 8806-7216 . 8879-9326
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Em 15/08/2011, às 10:46, Darren Purcell escreveu:
> >
> >> I addressed this in presentation I gave a few weeks ago. The law appears
> >> to
> >> prevent the friending of students that would allow personal, private
> >> communication. Interaction in public pages where posts are public and
> can
> >> be
> >> observed seemed to me to be allowed.
> >>
> >>
> >> Darren
> >> --------------------------------------------------------
> >> Darren Purcell
> >>
> >> Assistant Professor and Undergraduate Adviser
> >> Dept. of Geography and Environmental Sustainability
> >> University of Oklahoma
> >>
> >> SWAAG Secretary : http://www2.geog.okstate.edu/swaag/
> >>
> >> Email: dpurcell at ou.edu
> >> Skype: profpurcell
> >> (405) 325-9193
> >> http://ags.ou.edu/~dpurcell/
> >> http://ou.academia.edu/DarrenPurcell
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Mark D. Johns <mjohns at luther.edu>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> 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.
> >>> --
> >>> Mark D. Johns, Ph.D.
> >>> Associate Professor, Communication Studies
> >>> Luther College, Decorah, Iowa USA
> >>> -----------------------------------------------
> >>> 2011-12 Director, Luther Study Centre
> >>> 23 Haslemere Road
> >>> Nottingham NG8 5GJ
> >>> United Kingdom
> >>> -----------------------------------------------
> >>> "Get the facts first. You can distort them later."
> >>>    ---Mark Twain
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> 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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