{"id":1538,"date":"2011-01-12T08:18:14","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T15:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=1538"},"modified":"2014-09-12T12:01:58","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T18:01:58","slug":"comment-on-larry-cubans-blog-facebook-friends-and-online-schooling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2011\/01\/12\/comment-on-larry-cubans-blog-facebook-friends-and-online-schooling\/","title":{"rendered":"Comment on Larry Cuban&#8217;s Blog: Facebook, Friends, and Online Schooling"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><a href=\"http:\/\/larrycuban.wordpress.com\/2011\/01\/12\/facebook-friends-and-online-schooling\/\">Facebook, Friends, and Online Schooling | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I think he&#8217;s right.<\/p>\n<p>That does not mean that FB is a waste of time or the online learning doesn&#8217;t work, although both are true at times. It means the relationships formed online are different from those formed f2f.<\/p>\n<p>A FB &#8216;friend&#8217; is not automatically a real friend. Real friendship (as well as lasting teacher-student relationships) are formed, like he says, over time. I think it is possible to build real friendships online, but just like in real life, it takes time. I suspect that it takes considerably MORE online time than it would in RL.<\/p>\n<div class='wp_likes' id='wp_likes_post-1538'><a class='like' href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(1538);\" title='' ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-likes\/images\/like.png\" alt='' border='0'\/><\/a><span class='text'>Be the first to like.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class='like' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(1538);\">Like<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='unlike' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.unlike(1538);\">Unlike<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Facebook, Friends, and Online Schooling | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice. I think he&#8217;s right. That does not mean that FB is a waste of time or the online learning doesn&#8217;t work, although both are true at &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2011\/01\/12\/comment-on-larry-cubans-blog-facebook-friends-and-online-schooling\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,14,24],"tags":[41,65,393,58],"class_list":["post-1538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational-technology","category-general","category-teaching-learning","tag-education","tag-facebook","tag-teaching-learning","tag-virtual-learning"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Hsb6-oO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1885,"url":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2011\/11\/30\/donald-clark-plan-b-21st-century-skills-are-so-last-century\/","url_meta":{"origin":1538,"position":0},"title":"Donald Clark Plan B: 21st Century Skills are so last century!","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"November 30, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Donald Clark Plan B: 21st Century Skills are so last century!. 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