[LM_NET] SHARE: NSBA Creating and Connecting: Research and guidelines on online social and educational network

[Barbara Braxton <barbara.288@BIGPOND.COM>]

This link came from a discussion on OZTL_NET, the Australian version of LM_NET.  It 
gives a clear
statistical analysis of what "tweens and teens" are doing online when they are not 
at school and
therefore an understanding of just how far many have moved beyond the traditional 
ICT skills we try
to teach.  

"Online social networking is now so deeply embedded in the lifestyles of tweens and 
teens that it
rivals television for their attention, according to a new study from Grunwald 
Associates LLC
conducted in cooperation with the National School Boards Association." ...

"Overall, an astonishing 96 percent of students with online access report that they 
have ever used
any social networking technologies, such as chatting, text messaging, blogging and 
visiting online
communities, such as Facebook, MySpace and services designed specifically for 
younger children, such
as Webkins and the chat sections of Nick.com. Eighty-one percent say they have 
visited a
social networking Web site within the past three months and 71 percent say they use 
social
networking tools at least weekly. Further, students report that one of the most 
common topics of
conversation on the social networking scene is education. Almost 60 percent of 
students who use
social networking talk about education topics online and, surprisingly, more than 
50 percent talk
specifically about schoolwork.
Yet the vast majority of school districts have stringent rules against nearly all 
forms of social
networking during the school day ..."

http://www.nsba.org/SecondaryMenu/TLN/CreatingandConnecting.aspx

Fascinating stuff, especially when Lee and Winzenried in their History of the Use 
of Instructional
Technology in Schools (2008) have concluded that the most commonly used 
instructional technologies
in schools in the developed world in 2007 were still the pen, paper and the 
teaching board - be it
black, green or white.

Barbara

Barbara Braxton
Teacher Librarian
COOMA NSW 2630
AUSTRALIA

E. barbara.288@bigpond.com
Together we learn from each other 

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