Tips for Using Facebook with Students

Facebook just posted some useful tips for educators who use the popular social networking service to communicate with their students.

These are pretty basic tips that are good reminders for any adults who work with kids as a teacher, scout master or youth pastor. And parents too.

Privacy is important, especially on social networking services like Facebook. Even more so when you're communicating with young adults. Here's another great resource with tips to safeguard your Facebook privacy.

So, once you get their attention, what do you talk about? Good question. Paging Hey Josh....

Back Just in Time

The new US Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan says,

teacher-education programs need "revolutionary change

—not evolutionary tinkering."

Its been long time coming, but it needs to be done.

Is it right to keep teaching teachers to teach in the same way teachers taught 20 or 30 years ago ? Haven't we noticed (and research proves) that kids today are very different learners than 30 years ago?

A few years ago the call was for taking baby steps to change the education system to fit the new learners, but has that been enough? Personally I think it's about time for another "giant step for mankind." We have to begin teaching student-teachers in new ways, not the same old ways. Research shows that teachers teach in the way they were taught. If you keep doing the same old thing, you will come out with the same old thing. Why arent we paying attention to the research in front of us - our students--? How will they they teach in 20 years?

Read more about what Arne Duncan has to say about teacher-education>>>>

And We're Back....

We've had a rough couple months here on BlendedEdu (waves fist at GoDaddy!), but hopefully we're back up and running smoothly again.

Thanks for your patience.