Informal learning

Is public software helping such as Linkdin,del.icio.us to our learners? Some critical thinking we should notice about it.

1. Is really helping our kids? will they get wrong information?

2. informal learning vs formal learning

3. if public software is part of our teaching materials , How do teachers tell their students to use it. it will have problmes with freedom issue.

Those problems have been discussion for a while when you use pulic software in your classroom. you may set up those pulic software very careful for them. Otherwise, it will be just waste time it. i mean "very careful" which measn students may use public software to cheat or to do something we do not know. Internet is very popular now. a lot of crimes can learn via internet.

do you have any different views?