Looking Down From My Ivory Tower (Overview)

E-Sponsibility

This page of the blog is all dedicated to introducing you, the awesome reader or even cooler teacher, to the topics involving responsibility on the internet, with a focus on how social media relates to the classroom, and proper netiquette.

Computers are both a blessing and a curse in our society. They allow us to have access to almost an infinite amount of information, all just at the tip of our fingertips. A good example of this is now something that has become a common phrase in our society "google it". But with this great power, comes great responsibility. The internet is an untamed beast that no one person really can tame, only the individual can decide what is good and bad to post, but who should be teaching such a topic? Should it be up to the educational system that already tries to pack as much curriculum in as possible, or is it up to the individual and their moral sensibility to know what is right and wrong? After all children these days already run around with cell phones, where as when I was in elementary school the kid with a cell phone was the special one who needed more help from others. Technology is not even a luxury anymore because it has gone past being rare, and is now seen as commodity. Right now you are viewing this blog that has the ability to be viewed worldwide, that's something that wouldn't have been possible 20 years ago. Can you imagine if one day if all computers stopped working? All of the scary thoughts. After all using them has become something almost vital to most of us.

Something else that will be addressed will be the topic of social media in the classroom and it's uses. This topic follows very closely with netiquette, because not all teachers know the best approaches when a student wants to be their friend. Also it would appear that most teachers are missing out on a distinct opportunity to use such websites as Facebook and Twitter to their full educational potential, with apps and groups that help connect students. All that and more on the pages ahead.

Don't worry my pages are more important than these:

Sources:

• Roblyer, M. D. (2013, July 24). Netiquette: Rules of behavior on the internet. Retrieved from http://www.education.com/reference/article/netiquette-rules-behavior-internet/
• Administrator, S. (2012, May 21). 99 ways you should be using facebook in your classroom [updated]. Retrieved from http://www.onlinecollege.org/2012/05/21/100-ways-you-should-be-using-facebook-in-your-classroom-updated/