In response to Michelle's  (http://exploreedtech.blogspot.com/2012/05/blog-post-1.html#comment-form) comments on the article Why We Need To Teach Social Networking by Jeff Utecht.  Retrieved from: http://www.thethinkingstick.com/:


These are new behaviors we need to be teaching in schools. We teach how to share, in the physical world. We teach how to cooperate, in the physical world. We teach how to stay away from danger in the physical world. But do we teach these same skills in the new digital sense? Why not?

Michelle-You bring up several interesting points in regards to our responsibilities as teachers in this new digital world. We do teach students how to share, cooperate, and stay away from danger in the physical world and we should also do it in the digital world. Of course, I believe that parents and schools should work collaboratively to create guidelines.  I also agree that social media has opened up a whole new world of communication and networking for the younger generation. It is more difficult (as a parent) to monitor everything that your child sees and hears on the internet.  There are a whole new set of rules that we need to keep in mind as our children/students use media.