social media presentation

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Is Social Media Reviving or Killing Our
Classrooms?
By: Jill Herb

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Is Social Media Reviving or Killing
Our Classrooms?
http://www.cio.com/article/2604686/social-media/is-social-media-reviving-
or-killing-our-classrooms.html

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Technology in the classroom
 As technology begins to integrate into the classroom, the
freedom and dependency of using gadgets is growing rapidly.
 More and more students bring their smartphones, tablets and
laptops into the classroom as tools for taking notes, finding
research and creating work for school

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Social media
 Using these gadgets, its difficult for teachers to monitor what
students are doing on the Internet
 Social media plays a major role of what consumes the time of
students
 Students become distracted when checking social media pages

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Distractions
 While social media can be very useful to deliver information to
mass amounts of receivers, often times students are using
these pages as opportunities to view friends and family
 However personally, I think this article fails to recognize the
other side of using social media

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Teaching students how to use social
media
 If students are becoming more and more distracted, why not
work the use of social media into the curriculum?
 I think students fail to understand the benefits of social media
because teachers do not show all the possibilities of its usage
 I understand the article stated that some teachers let students
use their technology so they are self-regulating themselves and
their time

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Integrate social media into
classrooms
 Perhaps one solution to avoiding social media as a distraction
is to incorporate social media as part of the curriculum
 If schools used Twitter as a source to send information out,
students will see this as an example of the alternative use for
these websites

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Positive Social Media Examples
Rutgers University utilizes Twitter as a place for students to receive quick, important
information

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This high school uses Twitter to
create a community both online and
in school. It features faculty and
students together which shows
positivity. It also posts quotes there
show positive outlooks on life.

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Conclusion
 If social media is inevitably about to enter the classroom, I think
it is important to begin structuring these sites into the
curriculum.
 There are many ways this could occur, the creativity and
possibilities are endless!