Fighting the Facebook Temptation

Something that is always brought up in school is how to keep our students off of Facebook or and social networking sites. And as they grow more and more like they are it keeps getting harder at an I.T. department. With ability to now post them to Facebook from your phones, iPod Touch, iPad's and most any other electronic devices it is really hard to block all of them. So is it now to the point where we should stop blocking and start teaching. Teaching responsibility on when and when not to be on these sites. I'm really, that's what we are suppose to be doing anyway, teaching our student responsibility. So how do we go about doing this? I think it all starts with the teacher working with our students on how and when to be on Facebook. So it might involve walking around the classroom as we teach and just check on what things are going on on their screens. Or get a monitoring software that lets you do that right at your desk like we are looking at. We will be using Intel's Classroom Management software that will come pre-installed on all of our students laptops. But that won't always catch what they are doing but it will do a very good jobs at what programs are running. Then it might be to where we get to just preaching to them that our work must be done and then the last few minutes of class is when we get to use that time to check our accounts, email, Facebook, ect... Maybe our classroom concepts need to start looking like that and maybe our students will start listening a little more during class if they know that they get time to Facebook after the first part of class. Now chatting, that is a whole different post but I need to gather some information and give it some thought on what I think about chatting.