IM in school… we think “why not?” but others say “heck no!” Why?
Posted on October 26th, 2005 by LizWe’ve had quite a bit of discussion on an article from our earlier days, this discussion of e-messenger.net. It’s turned into quite a fight between the IM loving Millenials and their teachers at school.
From David Warlick’s Two Cents Worth (found in Technology and Learning, October 2005):
[Students] talk, text message, and Google with their mobile phones, IM on their laptops, access the World Wide Web, [play] Net-based video games like Halo [and] MMORPG (did I get that right?) games like EverQuest and Second Life. These gadgets represent intellectual appendages to our children. They are the hands and feet that carry children to new experiences, and cutting these links is like cutting an appendage — and that makes no constructive sense to these children and their world view.”
A lot of libraries and schools block the usage of IM for students and patrons, and for varying reasons. We’ve heard a lot from the kids, and their responses directly point to the truth of the above statement. We’ve heard only a little from the teachers. Any school technology folks out there that would like to present the “opposing viewpoint?” Please submit your responses to me, lrea@nekls.org, I plan to post (with your permission of course) the best rationale I receive for blocking IM at school.
Comment By: TRIPLE B
June 6th, 2006 at 8:54 am
SFE!!! EVERYONE IF U NEED A MSN TRY OUT MESSENGERFX.COM SFE LATERS!!!
Comment By: chenoa
August 16th, 2006 at 5:06 pm
i hate my skool 4 1 i smoke and i started like 4 years ago b4 i went there so iam not given up but my skool has kicked me out 5 times in the last year 4 it like am guna lisen 2 a bunch of teachers oh well but now thev blocked all owe msn and stuff so it really really sucks iam only home 4 2 hours and 2 sleep so i never get on the net at home it really suckz ass and the bad part is we cant do nuthing about it
Comment By: RoByN
November 13th, 2006 at 8:59 am
OMG Y DO THEY BLOK IT ALL ITS PROPA GAY AS FUK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1