Saturday, November 18, 2006

Monitoring Students' Xanga/Blogs

I just watched a news programme on TV. Some teachers are now monitoring their students xanga/blogs. To see if they're studying after school, who they're with. Checking their photos with friends, where they've been to, etc... Of course, their feelings towards teachers, parents, school, friends...

I remembered a time when I was in secondary school when we have to write a weekly journal for our teacher, mostly for practising our writing skills. Most of the stuff in those "journals" are highly censored to fit for perusal by our teachers.

I don't know how students think about this. If the teachers have good intention to begin with, this might actually be a good thing. They'll get to know their students in a way that's never been possible before.

However, if it's just for them to find the naughty students and penalise them, hmm... then teenagers will just find other ways to cover up their activities, and they'll lose the channel of communication.

Teachers have such a high workload these days, and now they even have to check their student's activity on the web... what next??

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