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Through Online Community Works, I hope to make a case, no lots of cases, for the successes that are already happening in classrooms when teachers make learning part of an ongoing conversation with the world. Certainly, it isn't all nice out there. But it is the world we are preparing our children for, and we can no more teach our children today with bars over our digital windows than we could by bricking up the glass that lets in the light of the sun.

The idea that banning online communities from the classroom will "delete online predators" is so shallow and counter productive, that it...

As Chris Harris has so elequently said,