Thursday, December 6th, 2007...9:39 pm
Technology and Social Networking w/o the Internet
Fifth period class was well underway when one of my students asked if I had gotten the text. It was caught off-guard by the question. My first instinct was to say yes. However, day had not been a normal day. Students were mostly in shock. One of their classmates had been missing since November 19th. A body had been found and positively identified as the your male. Several of my students had known the student since kindergarten, others were related to him. The student that asked me about the text message was kind enough to share the message with me. I have deleted the names from the message but wanted to blog the content of the message.
Fr: Jus yesterday Delemerz was found dead n we want 2 send lov 2 da family n hope that justice is doneR.I.P. DELEMEZ WE LOV U!KEEP DIS CHAIN GOING!De 6 9:14 a.m.
None of my students needed to check their emails, MySpace, Bebo, Facebook, personal blogs, typepad, and more are all blocked. Still their social network was uninterrupted. My sympathy’s are with the families and classmates in their time of bereavement.Powered by ScribeFire.
1 Comment
January 1st, 2008 at 2:50 pm
Thanks for your posts. I enjoyed this one for a few reasons. First, if you skim my blog you’ll find we’ve had our own deaths here that just struck too darned close to home. Also, your post reminded me of something written on “Do I Dare Disturb the Universe?” called ‘Overheard in the Hallway.’
“Mr. Elias! I got a ‘B’ on my math test! I’m texting my mom that I’m a genius! How do I spell that? G-E-N-I-O-U-S?”
The cool thing about his post is that he never mentions stopping the kid, confiscating his cell phone, prohibitions against texting, or the like.
The network is constantly humming; most teachers just choose to ignore it or they’re completely ignorant of it…
http://www.thetechtrainer.edublogs.org
http://blog.scottjelias.net
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