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This teacher is joined by a young high school biology teacher who believes that digital networks are also learning spaces and that young people are not necessarily aware of this:

So social networks, in my opinion, should not be banned but should be used correctly, […] there are also advantages to uh... Facebook, or Twitter, etc., in that you can monitor information and follow interesting pages. For example, in biology there are very interesting pages. There is the page of the Museum of Natural History which publishes articles, there are the museums of Bordeaux which publish articles, and also American sites. So why not, um, do interdisciplinary work with the English teachers? Explain to the students that ok there are funny things on Facebook but there are also sources of information that are reliable and that they can go and look for information on them and often it’s small articles that are not very complicated. And then when it comes to digital literacy, in my opinion it’s like all the other types of education, be it sex education, citizenship education, etc. It should be part of the core curriculum. It concerns all the teachers because at the end of the day, our role as teachers is to give students the keys so that they become responsible citizens. And, well, being responsible also means paying attention to what we do with digital technology, and so for me it’s something in the core curriculum that all teachers should strive to do, and they don’t necessarily do it, so it’s a shame (biology teacher in a senior high school, age 22).