{"id":230,"date":"2011-08-22T09:15:55","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T14:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.education4site.org\/blog\/?p=230"},"modified":"2013-07-22T06:25:30","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T11:25:30","slug":"norwegian-professor-says-that-teachers-must-be-on-facebook-to-understand-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.education4site.org\/blog\/2011\/norwegian-professor-says-that-teachers-must-be-on-facebook-to-understand-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Norwegian professor says that teachers must be on Facebook to understand students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.education4site.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/teacherfacebook.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-233\" title=\"teacherfacebook\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.education4site.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/teacherfacebook.jpg?resize=260%2C190\" width=\"260\" height=\"190\" \/><\/a>Legislators in Missouri, USA, recently passed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/thetwo-way\/2011\/08\/03\/138932276\/missouri-outlaws-student-teacher-facebook-friendship\">a law that forbids teachers from socializing with students using social web sites<\/a>. Meanwhile, Arne Krokan, a Norwegian professor specializing in technology and society, claims that<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aftenposten.no\/nyheter\/iriks\/article4205397.ece#.Ue0WID5Oo0M\" target=\"_blank\"> teachers <em>must<\/em> be on Facebook if they are to truly understand the culture and social reality of the students that they work with<\/a>. Recently, a course was held for 300 Norwegian teachers about social networking. It turned out that half of the participating teachers did not even have a Facebook account. I&#8217;m sure Missouri legislators would have been very happy with that. In Norway it was considered a disappointing reality in need of immediate attention. I&#8217;m inclined to agree with the Norwegians.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate?js=n&amp;prev=_t&amp;hl=en&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;layout=2&amp;eotf=1&amp;sl=no&amp;tl=en&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fm.nrk.no%2Fm%2Fartikkel.jsp%3Fart_id%3D17758916\">Read more here (link goes to tolerable Google translation).<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/marketplace.publicradio.org\/display\/web\/2011\/03\/04\/tech-report-virginia-struggles-with-teachers\/\">A policy similar to the new legislation in Missouri has been under consideration in Virginia since last year.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.connectmidmissouri.com\/news\/story.aspx?id=653721\">The Missouri Teachers&#8217; Association has filed a lawsuit challenging the Missouri legislation.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legislators in Missouri, USA, recently passed a law that forbids teachers from socializing with students using social web sites. Meanwhile, Arne Krokan, a Norwegian professor specializing in technology and society, claims that teachers must be on Facebook if they are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.education4site.org\/blog\/2011\/norwegian-professor-says-that-teachers-must-be-on-facebook-to-understand-students\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,6,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-icts","category-information-society","category-technology-foresight"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p22Btc-3I","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.education4site.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.education4site.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.education4site.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.education4site.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.education4site.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.education4site.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232,"href":"https:\/\/www.education4site.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions\/232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.education4site.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.education4site.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.education4site.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}