Favorite myth-making news articles?

  • Myth #1: The digital is separate from the “real” world.
  • Myth #2: Social media makes kids deceptive.
  • Myth #3: Social media is addictive.
  • Myth #4: Kids don’t care about privacy.
  • Myth #5: The Internet is a dangerous, dangerous place.
  • Myth #6: There’s nothing educational about social media.
  • Myth #7: Kids are digital natives.
  • Myth #8: The Internet is the great equalizer.

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emergentfutures: Teens join Twitter to escape parents on Facebook: survey “Teens don’t tweet, will never tweet – too public, too many older users. Not cool. That’s been the prediction for a while now, born of numbers showing that fewer than one in 10 teens were using Twitter early on. But then their parents, grandparents, neighbours, parents’ friends and anyone in-between started friending them on Facebook, the social networking site of choice for many — and a curious thing began to happen…..” Full Story: Globe and Mail
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emergentfutures:

Teens join Twitter to escape parents on Facebook: survey

“Teens don’t tweet, will never tweet – too public, too many older users. Not cool.

That’s been the prediction for a while now, born of numbers showing that fewer than one in 10 teens were using Twitter early on.

But then their parents, grandparents, neighbours, parents’ friends and anyone in-between started friending them on Facebook, the social networking site of choice for many — and a curious thing began to happen…..”

Full Story: Globe and Mail

Social Media isn’t going anywhere.  I’m a STRONG believer in teaching our students how to use this medium productively as opposed to teaching themselves how to use it for frivolous entertainment purposes solely.  But… hard to teach those skills with blocked websites in the classroom.

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