1. Should schools be blocking social networking? By Ayla Smoak

2. Are schools understanding everything that they are blocking form the students?

3. Some of these blocked sites can be used for engaged learn for their pupils.

4. Why block something that will make your students excited about the lesson?

5. Teachers want their students to be engaged/excited for their lessons.

6. These kids are.

7. So just let them get excited about learning. Unblock the social networks!

8. Redefine what it means to have engaged learning.

9. But do using these social networks like Skype really work for class lessons?

10. Just ask them.

11. Yet most schools don’t understand this.

12. Schools are blocking networks that they don’t even know what they can use them for.

13. The web enables global collaboration, so why block it?

15. Class lessons can be on debates , opinions, etc.

16. Teachers can arrange debates with U.K. students on the American Revolution.

17. Like these kids are doing.

18. Using these blocked sites gives skills needed for future jobs!

19. A fun way of finding out of what is going on in the outside world.

20. School leaders should be questioning themselves on what is really happening.

21. Information is flowing out of classroom instead of in.

22. Social networking like Skype is the new age learning!

24. So why are we blocking our future? !?