Oh GOD , i have found the new version of the sodding class bear

[DrNick]

primary schools have taken to asking for retweets on twitter to see " how far a tweet can travel"

the learning point being....?

Oh god. How very modern. And crap.

Don't put things you don't mean to on the internet cos you don't know where they will go/ who will end up with it?

or ' its a world wide web"?

It's an exercise to show that anything you put on the internet is out there for good. That even if it's something you later delete it, it could have been shared and spread far and wide by others.

A friend of mine is a lecturer. He asked one class to research something or other and report back the next week. In the meantime he added some made up stuff to Wikipedia about whatever it was.

7/10 of the students included the made up stuff in their findings. I thought it was a brilliant lesson in how to not trust any single source.

Not relevant really but I liked the story

I saw a picture on Facebook the other day of teachers holding a sign asking for it to be shared so they could show their students how quickly an image can spread around the internet. It's to teach them internet safety and to be careful what they share online as they can't take it back.

well they seem to be plotting it on a map/
i think its geog

There are looooooooooads of these photos bouncing around on Facebook at the moment. The first one I saw, I thought "great idea". After the 50th or so, not so much.

It will be around Internet safety and the fact that once something is out there -for example a photo-you have not way at all of controlling who sees it. This is a very effective way of teaching teenagers about the dangers of sharing explicit pictures with each other. just telling them does not seem to work!

Its v v facebook - loads of news stories about this

At least you don't have to think up fun things to do with a Tweet or write in it's fucking diary...

Is there an age limit on twitter.

I know Facebook is 13, if the age is the same why are the school encouraging parents to set up accounts with the wrong DOB

JanetandRoy just what I was going to say - anything, whatever it is, however crap it might be, however big a waste of time it proves it HAS to be better than the sodding Class Bear! However, unless my DDs class is keeping their hidden for some unknown reason - there's no sign of him [whispering excitedly - don't want anyone to hear me]

I've had a photo pop up in my news feed recently asking people to share it, as previous posters have said it's a lesson in internet safety and being careful of what you put online

They're tracking it on a map too, it's been as far as New Zealand

Not all are genuine. I had one via a Facebook friend that was from an ex-boyfriend. Imagine my surprise that he appeared to have given up his lucrative career in advertising for life as a primary school teacher. Or not.