Free Essay: Should Students Befriend Teachers on Facebook?
Students use Facebook for varied reasons. A study conducted on Iranian students asking the same question established a couple of reasons why students use Facebook. DeAndrea et al., (2011) found that students use Facebook for learning purposes, to develop new relationships, spend free time, maintain relationships and set up personal identification.
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Some educators are making use of social-learning networks such as Edmodo, Schoology, and Collaborize Classroom for their students to discuss issues and collaborate on projects or for teachers to assign and receive homework. Any teacher who requires students to join a social network should send home clear guidelines on how students should use it.
But there’s a big problem with that logic: Teachers aren’t supposed to be their students’ friends. It just doesn’t work. Imagine if your friend tried to assign you homework to do over the weekend. Or if the only fair grade they could give you on your essay was a D. Or if they had to hand you a detention.
I've got teacher friends who wouldn't touch Facebook with a bargepole. Their schools are equally underwhelmed with it and while they cannot ban staff from using Facebook it is actively discouraged. YANBU, OP since I really do think Facebook can cause enormous problems with the personal and professional get mixed up in it.
There's a couple of reasons. In NZ and Aus (presumably elsewhere but I wouldn't know), a teacher cannot legally have a relationship with an ex-student until at least 3 years after the student has graduated. This is to prevent the possibility of a.
Teachers do not have to be a student’s friend to be helpful, but being a Friend (on social network sites) is not automatically problematic or equivalent to trying to be a kids’ friend. When it comes to social network sites, teachers should not invade a student’s space.