Safe Social Networking Tailored for K-12 Schools

This article was about using social networking in schools for academic purposes  and enhance the material they are learning in the classroom. The programs are not like facebook, they are designed specifically for school use and only allows communications between student and teacher and not student and student. Some educators are worried about it though, claiming that you cannot control or predict the advertising or security and social interaction. On the other hand though some teachers really like it, saying that it helps draw out a higher level of discussion from the students. Most of the programs do charge the schools for their use, but claim that they do not release any of the student's information to their advertisers. I think that this is a fantastic idea for teachers to incorporate these programs into their lessons. I hope that when I am a teacher I will be able to use something like this in my classroom. I think that this is a great idea and if the program is specifiably made for students use and the school is paying for it then I am sure that it will be safe. It gives children a chance to see the informative way to use social networking. It also gives the students a chance to interact with the teacher other ways besides face to face, which for students is sometimes better because that is the way they do all their other communication with their friends.