Social Media In Education

There are cases where social media is being used appropriately in classrooms.All these social media sites are being seen as negative ways to teach the students in the classroom, yet many do not know that it can actually be beneficial to the students and to the teachers. Using creative approaches from the teachers are helping the students can learn from connecting, sharing, and collaborating with other students. Bloom's Taxonomy was mentioned in the article to show that the social media is helping those students with the cognitive domain, the critical thinking objectives included knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evolution.

Using social media in the classroom with the WEB 2.0 it is all about creating and publishing our own work for others to see, and that is what the teachers are doing now to help out their students not only in the classroom, but online as well. If the social media is used correctly there should be no reason why it would cause a negative perpective. Students on their off time are usually on some piece of technology, which in fact could be beneficial if that teacher decides to take a different approach and incorporate social media in his/her classroom. Two key factors when using technology are problem solving and encouraging independence when using social media. This is not bad letting the students use social media to help with homework, as long as answers will not be posted, and copying will not occur.The student will get to learn how everything works, and that will even come at a price of exploring that website and making mistakes to get it right. This is a way to expand the minds of the students for their good. Using technology and social media in the schools should be looked at as a positive and a way that is going to further the education of the children because the world is forever changing and the newer generations needs to keep up with the world.

Twitter is a big discussion point when it comes to social media and if it acceptable in the classrooms. In this article it is for teachers to use twitter in 50 different ways so that it can be beneficial to the students. With the students going on their social media sites every few seconds the new feeds would be beneficial to high school students so if there is a test tomorrow the teacher can tweet or post on Facebook that there is a test tomorrow and maybe add a pic of a study guide or a "quizzlet" that the student can take while they are looking at what happened on social media while they ate dinner, or just got back from practice. This would be beneficial to those students in the secondary range, because the little kids in the elementary range are not going to be whipping out their iPhones to check what happened on social media when they got back from from Kindergarden.

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