Discussion board - reflection
Q. Do you have an unpleasant experience related to a networking site?
A. I personally have no interest in actively using such sites. However, some of my students do. My students are 20 to 26 with cognitive impairments. I have visited several of my students sites that I could access after hearing my students talk about it last year. One young lady had not made good choices in how she presented herself and went for sex appeal to put it politely. My concern with this was she also included her home address on her my space account. In my opinion she made herself an easy target for sexual predators and needless to say I spoke to her mother about my concern. My other students my space accounts were I guess you could say innocent.
Q How would you use these sites to educate students? Is it possible?
A. I don't think I would use the actual sites themselves, but instead teach and review safety skills. My students especially would benefit from using protective skills when creating and actively utilizing such sites. I think it is important that students recongize using caution when networking.
I feel that if special education students are going to use these web site then as special educate teachers we need to develop some type of educational use that is appropriate in teaching these students consequences that could arise from presenting something on there page that is inappropriate or could put them in harms way.
Anon
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