Share Paper: 1 New Friend Request: Would Your Students Accept a Friend Request from Your School in the New Edu-social Networked World

  1. Charles Tuite, Ball State University, United States

Abstract: Technology has made it so that the school is introduced to students and parents online before they are introduced in person. Students also understand their world via social networks and other contexts which reach from the outside world into the school environment to form what could be termed an “edu-social network”. Through this lens, what messages do schools seem to send to those students via their online presence, and their online policies? If middle school students received a friend request from their school, and the students checked them out by their websites, online mission statements, and online dress codes, would ...