A blogger response

While surfing through a teacher-blog, I found one posting that was really interesting:

Kurt Vonnegut, Facebook and the Teaching Life

In this post, a teacher reminisces over the idea that with the advances of social networking these days, teachers and students have the ability to connect and over-lap in time. That is, in the past this teacher remembers specific students, in specific times. Now however, her past students and current students are able to connect and communicate which creates an over-lapping in time for the teacher of past and present students. 

This is a testament to how powerful technology and social media is in this day and age. However, it also brings to mind the concept of using the technology appropriately. Now, more than ever, our past mistakes can come back to haunt us. Students now not only have the ability to connect with past and future students, but they can also know much about you (me) as a teacher and a person. .... Have I used good judgement in what I have allowed to be posted of me on social media sites? Have I been the teacher that students rave about in a positive, or negative light (and what they will post of me on the internet)? How will these choices affect my future teaching career and/or reputation? 

The rise in technology and social media sites can be extremely useful when used appropriately. however, teacher need to always be careful about how they use this technology, because it can be quite harmful when used inappropriately. 

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