Wednesday, 7 October 2015

Exploring Facebook Education Communities



Upon my exploration, I looked into several Facebook community pages and found quite a bit of useful information! This one in particular is called Edutopia.

The Facebook groups are there for teachers, parents and other users to join and submit feedback. I found these community pages very useful. It allowed teachers to share resources, lesson plans, videos and even articles. One neat example I came across was a few articles on bullying. How it effects students and how to identify bullying behavior within your students. I found these articles very helpful as bullying is sadly a very common issue in today' s society.

I also came across a post about dealing with students with extreme behavior. I decided to explore the posts other Facebook users contributed and their feedback was effective. However, one user wrote "teach your students to fight back", with this, someone politely replied and said we do not encourage violence as there are other ways to deal with extreme behavior. They also continued on to say feel free to stay on our page but if you do comment negatively we will block you from the group. This put emphasis on the validity and reliability of the content within this Facebook community. This was reassuring as I realized the content posted within this Facebook group was accurate, and appropriate. 

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