You are a middle school teacher with numerous computers in your classroom. You keep catching your students spending class time receiving and answering instant messages (IM) instead of working on class assignments. Your students say that the IMs are a great way to keep in touch with friends and ask questions about class work. To them, IM messaging is totally cool! Should you allow your students to use instant messaging during class time? Is this a misuse of classtime? If you think that is is a misuse of class time, what can you do to prevent your students from sending and receiving IMs in your class? Can filtering software programs prevent instant messaging?
I do not consider myself a "cool" parent or teacher. But I am fair and fun. However, Instant Messaging would not be used during my class time. This is a tool that will totally
We need to use whatever means we have to keep technology, as a whole, in our class rooms but the filth out, without allowing our children to take control.
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