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As school districts pat themselves on the back for saving our youth from the dangers of MySpace, there are hundreds of these types of sites going live each day. Piczo.com is a site that is gaining popularity with elementary kids. Herecast, Squareloop, Socialight, Rabble, StreetHive, BuddyPing, Dodgeball are all social networking sites. Do we ban these words as well?
Instead of the ‘out of sight, out of mind’ hair trigger mentality, we need to be educating students about how to be functional users of technology, and the benefits and drawbacks of social networks. Sites such as think.com, a free online community geared toward elementary schools, should be part of the daily curriculum to teach about social networking.
