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问题    Social networking websites are breaking down barriers between teachers and students, redefining the way they communicate and interact with each other. Is the exposure of private information beneficial to both parties? Should teachers be banned from interacting with students via social networking websites? The following are opinions from different sides. Read the excerpt carefully and write your response in NO LESS THAN 300 WORDS, in which you should:
   1.   summarize briefly the different opinions;
   2.  give your comment.
   Marks will be awarded for content relevance, content sufficiency, organization and language quality. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.
   Write your article on ANSWER SHEET FOUR.
   Excerpt
   Carol Shakeshaft; A teacher-student relationship is not one between friends or equals. Educators who use social media for personal and intimate conversations and contact are not much different from those who spend their time hanging out with students at the beach. You have to ask why a teacher would do this. The honest answer is that it rarely has anything to do with student learning. Interacting with one’s teachers the same way as with one’s friends, sharing personal information, can only erode the respect and distance that a teacher needs in order to be an authority figure and a mentor for her young charges.
   Pempek: Social media has become the primary way in which children interact with their peers. These interactions are largely unsupervised by any adult, yet they have a fundamental impact on the development of the children involved. Adolescents use social networking websites to gauge peer opinion about themselves which may subsequently influence identity formation. With so much cyber bullying happening on such websites, and postings of inappropriate behavior that may later surface to affect a student’s chances of getting into college or getting a job, it would be useful to have a teacher supervise these interactions to make sure no harm comes to the children involved.
   Jennifer: Teachers’ personal life might undermine educational message. Access to a teacher’s private information and photos may lead to weakening her position as an educator. How can a teacher convincingly speak against smoking or substance abuse if students have access to pictures portraying the teacher himself drinking or smoking? And even if the teacher will be careful not to post anything inappropriate on her page, a friend or acquaintance might thereby undermine the teacher. A strict separation between personal and professional life would prevent such incidents from happening.
   Salman: Social media can be powerful educational resources. Many teachers have been using social media as an extension of the classroom, some of them setting up discussion pages, or allowing students to contact them about homework or things that they did not understand in the classroom; it allows the teachers to provide extra help whenever the student needs it. This keeps students interested and makes learning fun by using a tool that they are already fond of. The enormous success of tools like " The Khan Academy" , which uses YouTube videos to deliver lectures to kids, is proof of that. It also allows even those students who are too shy to speak out in class or ask for help, to participate. Tools like Facebook and Twitter have the advantage of being ready-made platforms that lend themselves well to extending classroom discussions through groups, pages, pictures, and videos.
   Calvert; It would be difficult to find out whether a student and teacher have had contact over the Internet. There is then a question about how the state would find out about such behavior. Would the state be allowed to access private Facebook accounts, personal computers, or Internet service provider records to make sure teachers and students are not communicating with each other? That would constitute a serious privacy intrusion and violation.
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答案    Should Teachers Be Banned from Interacting with Students via Social Networking Websites?
   As the Socratic mission goes, " I cannot teach anybody anything and I can only make them think. " The Greek philosopher Socrates raised a plethora of questions to interrogate his pupils, be drunkards, beggars or generals, in the agora of warm Athens. Social networking websites nowadays serve as the public market for Socratic cross-examination apart from the traditionally acceptable hall for lecturing, like Academy of Plato and laboratories of Aristotle. In actuality, the issue of teacher-student interaction via social networks concerns the definition on the teacher-student relationship—be hierarchical boss-employee or equal partnership? Definitely the latter would meet the goal of education, cultivating eligible educators in terms of mental well-being.
   Those who argue for the banning of interaction via social networks assert that the assumed authority of teachers would be undermined by the exposure of privacy, especially for those who preach hypocritically the virtue of clean life in class, albeit corrupt morally in actual life. On the other hand, social networks, in essence, are supposed to be the public platform for presenting the self-image and formation of identify. Specifically, in educational context, the networks can expand the educational resources in various forms of videos, chat-rooms and supervise the web-bullying under the protection of the right of personal interaction in privacy.
   The purpose of schooling lies in training the educated in the commitment of leniency and reason, which can be activated through communication via social networks. The exposure of personal life can be in favor of both respondents in that teachers can probably understand the students more comprehensively about their diversified factors contributing to academic performance, instead of the previous snobbish prejudice based on the assumed link between sloth and poor performance; on the other hand, students can possibly form a rich image of teachers rather than the rigid stereotype, which would eliminate fear and fury with a result of high motivation in achieving academic improvement. More often than not, the training of reason involves fierce argumentation regardless of title, status or age, which can be better achieved out of the sincere partnership between teachers and students via social networks. They can furthermore avoid the embarrassment of losing face on a face-to-face interaction in lecture hall which also features in mechanical implantation and tedious memorization.
   In conclusion, social networking websites are helpful and effective stages for the mental growth for both the educators and those being educated in terms of tempering tolerance and reason.
解析    本题讨论是否要禁止师生通过社交网站联系，选题关注科技发展，反思教学本质。本题要求简要概括所给材料中的观点，并发表自己的看法。在具体的写作过程中，考生可以开篇点明这种现象，并提出论点：师生通过社交网站沟通的利弊问题；第二段简要阐述正反两种观点；第三段重点阐述自己对这一问题的看法，并说明理由；最后一段总结全文，重申观点。
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