Social Media in K-12 Schools - Holly Howard

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How to Use Social Media as a Learning Tool. (n.d.). Retrieved September 22, 2017, from http://www.edudemic.com/how-to-use-social-media-as-a-learning-tool-in-the-classroom/

Summary:

• Edudemic Staff gives you five different types of social media you can use in the classroom: Facebook, Twitter, Blog, YouTube, and Instagram.
• They go over how you can use all of these in the classroom and outside of the classroom too. 
• By using social media it can be really helpful and not get in the way of learning. By using social media kids who don't have the money to buy technology this can help them get some from the school. 
• Edudemic Staff tells you to make sure that all your pages you have for your classes are private page so your class and the parents are the only ones that can see the.

Assess:

• I there is but I like what they had to say in this article. 
• It was written in 2015 so its two years old so its up-to-date.I believe it is accurate.
• The author did not cite anything I feel like they do all of this stuff in their classroom so its some of their ideas.  

E. (2015, August 06). Retrieved September 22, 2017, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZPbhsQxzWY

Summary:

• They talk about how social media is used in the classroom. In the video they talk about how a teacher started the challenge of the 20 paper stack. The teacher posted pictures of it then later on other teachers in other schools were doing and other teach on the other side of the world were doing it too. By using social media it helps spend ideas to other teachers around the world to come up with cool new things to do in the classroom. They talk about at first when you start using twitter you are Twitting to no one but later on you will start having people replying back to you and start following you then you will end up with a lot more then you started with.

Assess:

• This video is produced by a credible source the sources are teacher that use social media in the classroom. The teacher in this video has experiences with social media in the classroom. It is accurate and it is up to date.  

Reflection:

• I believe that teachers should use social media in the classroom. The kids are growing up using social media now an days so it makes sense for teacher to use it in the classroom. It can help with letting the parents know what homework their kids have to do, and projects. With using social media the kids and post questions for the teacher to answer if they need help with a problem with not going to class and not having the homework done even other students can help out with answering the question.