Reflection 6

     An article I have recently read was about teachers and students getting too social online. This article had some really important information in it about being friends with your students on social media. I am definitely in between the ideas of having or not having students as friends on a social media.
     This article also shares information that was given in a couple interviews about using or not using social media. In some districts I across the country, schools are imposing new guidelines that ban private conversations between teachers and their students on social media. So some teachers do not even have the option to be friends with their students.
     In one of the interviews that was given, this teacher said something that stood out to me, "I think one of the reasons why I use social media is the same reason why everyone else uses it, it works. I think that we would do more good keeping kids safe by teaching them how to use these tools and navigate this online world rather thank looking it down and pretending that it is not in our realm." This statement stuck out to me because most of the incidents that happened could have been preventable if the students or even the teachers were taught the correct way to use the technology.