{"id":1183,"date":"2010-04-29T15:06:45","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T20:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stager.tv\/?p=1183"},"modified":"2010-04-29T15:14:19","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T20:14:19","slug":"obama-state-school-leaders-want-facebook-unblocked-in-classrooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stager.tv\/?p=1183","title":{"rendered":"Obama &#038; State School Leaders Want Facebook Unblocked in Classrooms!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"131\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1182\" title=\"teacheroftheyear\" src=\"http:\/\/stager.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/teacheroftheyear.png\" alt=\"teacheroftheyear\" \/>Amidst the hoopla surrounding the silly tradition of naming a national &#8220;Teacher of the Year,&#8221; the President of the United States and Council of Chief State School Officers made major policy news by endorsing the unblocking of Internet access in American classrooms &#8211; all in pursuit of educational excellence!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A high school English teacher from Iowa who incorporates everything from singing to <strong>Facebook in her lessons<\/strong> has been recognized by President Barack Obama as the nation&#8217;s top teacher.<\/p>\n<p>Obama introduced Sarah Brown Wessling on Thursday in a ceremony in the Rose Garden.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Her students don&#8217;t just write five-paragraph essays, but they write songs, public service announcements, film story boards, even grant proposals for their own not-for-profit organizations,&#8221; the president said, adding that one of Wessling&#8217;s students reported that learning in her classroom was never boring.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not sure I could have said that when I was in school,&#8221; said Obama. (<a title=\"Teacher-of-the-Year article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2010\/04\/29\/sarah-brown-wessling-teac_n_557251.html\" target=\"_blank\">original article<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;The Council of Chief State School Officers selects the recipient of the annual honor and cited Wessling&#8217;s passion and innovative approaches, including <strong>incorporating Facebook<\/strong> in her classes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, congratulations are in order for Ms. Wessling and for every teacher in America who can now go tell their school &#8220;network nazis&#8221; that the President of the United States wants them to stop blocking the Web. Blocking Facebook and other web sites is unpatriotic!<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, Mr. President!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"file:\/\/\/Users\/stager\/Library\/Caches\/TemporaryItems\/moz-screenshot.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/constructingmodernknowledge.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Come to CMK 2010!\" src=\"http:\/\/stager.org\/homepageimages\/alfiekohnanimation.gif\" alt=\"Come to CMK 2010!\" width=\"570\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amidst the hoopla surrounding the silly tradition of naming a national &#8220;Teacher of the Year,&#8221; the President of the United States and Council of Chief &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[430,427,435,428,526,434,436,424,431,438,462],"tags":[728,730,1386,731,729],"class_list":["post-1183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creativity","category-education-policy","category-featured","category-general","category-leadership","category-learning","category-news","category-obama","category-teaching","category-technology","category-web-20","tag-facebook","tag-it-policies","tag-obama","tag-teacher-of-the-year","tag-web-filtering"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Obama &amp; State School Leaders Want Facebook Unblocked in Classrooms! 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