Facebook Available In A Classroom Near U
April 28th, 2011 | by Jen |NSW public school teachers have been granted permission to use Facebook, Twitter and other social media in the classroom. Students are still blocked.
It was the former Labor government that decided teachers should be able to access social media from yesterday, which was the first day of the second school term for students.
A Department of Education spokeswoman said the change would help improve communication between schools and their communities.
It would also give staff a ”greater understanding of technology being used by students”.
A spokesman for the Minister for Education, Adrian Piccoli, said the change would also help teachers combat cyber bullying.
The president of the NSW Teachers Federation, Bob Lipscombe, cautioned teachers to take care about who they became ”friends” with on Facebook to ensure their professionalism was not compromised. He reminded teachers that any information they posted would be imprinted in the public domain.