Many people have been touting the use of social media in education? Should more schools explore this? At what level of education will this work the best?
Dear Mardene Rosalee, If you interested in my experience in this topic, I can suggest you my paper:
"The Using of Social Media Platform in Modern Journalism Education"
D Osepashvili
DOI: 10.13140/2.1.3337.0245 Conference: European Conference on Social Media: ECSM 2014, At Brighton, UK. pp.378-387
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/264287816_The_Using_of_Social_Media_Platform_in_Modern_Journalism_Education
Conference Paper The Using of Social Media Platform in Modern Journalism Education
To Antonio's list of benefits of social media I would add the opportunity for collaborative learning (which probably fits in student engagement). My daughter is a student in biomedical engineering and several courses have required group projects. I have seen her Skype with members of her teams, discuss and help each other with their segments of the project, and finally put the entire project together. This is a great deal more efficient and less time-consuming than the way it was done in the years BC (before computers). And social media not only inspires creativity in the way subjects are taught but also in the way students work together to solve problems and learn.
Social Media has in many cases a great impact to learning and teaching. It is not only collaboration, it's just communication beyond the classroom in a much more engaging way.
Maybe we can also think it in such a way - use the appropriate tool for your communication and sometimes 140 signs are enough :-)
maybe this is also interesting: http://de.slideshare.net/mebner/the-influcence-of-twitter-on-academic-environment
I think social media has great impact on education to a certain extent, but do we also have to consider the negative impact it has on education?
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