Comments on: Facebook – The Next Learning Management System http://frozencanvas.com/thaw/facebook-the-next-learning-management-system/ Design, The Web & Technology Thu, 15 Apr 2010 04:00:47 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Learning Management Systems http://frozencanvas.com/thaw/facebook-the-next-learning-management-system/comment-page-1/#comment-1167 Learning Management Systems Thu, 06 Aug 2009 09:26:13 +0000 http://frozencanvas.com/thaw/?p=58#comment-1167 Very true--Facebook, we should remember, didn't begin with image-obsessed, camera-toting teenagers. It began as a way for college students to network online. So it shouldn't be surprising or if students and educators use it in its original context: as a way to connect peers in a learning system. And though I don't agree with the Blue Skunk's decree, that "Every website shall remain unblocked until proven to be 'harmful to minors'" (there are simply too many sites to review without using a filtering product, flawed as that may be) I do think there could be a place for Web 2.0 technologies like social networking sites in schools. Very true–Facebook, we should remember, didn’t begin with image-obsessed, camera-toting teenagers. It began as a way for college students to network online. So it shouldn’t be surprising or if students and educators use it in its original context: as a way to connect peers in a learning system.

And though I don’t agree with the Blue Skunk’s decree, that “Every website shall remain unblocked until proven to be ‘harmful to minors’” (there are simply too many sites to review without using a filtering product, flawed as that may be) I do think there could be a place for Web 2.0 technologies like social networking sites in schools.

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