Reflection #12

Facebook has become a part of many students lives these days.  When the three teachers came to our class to talk, they mentioned that it is best to be very wise about who we accept as friends, and how our facebook page looks to the public eye.  My husband is currently student teaching at a Junior High, and his observing teacher (whom I have as a teacher this year as well) informed me that he heard while observing my husband that my husbands picture is on a students facebook (they took his photo off the NU men's soccer website), and that girls have been commenting saying that he is cute.  This took me by surprise that a student had the guts to put something like that up about a teacher on a public site such as facebook. Even though we do not know who did it, and we probably will never take the time to figure it out, it made me think that teachers do need to be very careful about what they have on facebook, but also, students should also be wise about what they post.  Something like that could be dangerous for a teacher, my husband has no idea who may have posted this on their facebook, but if girls were to comment and say something inappropriate as a joke, it could potentially get my husband, or any teacher into trouble.  Even though we cannot control what our students do, this has just reaffirmed me that as teachers, we need to be extra careful about what we put online, and very particular on who we accept as friends on facebook and other social networking sites.