Social Media being "Liked" by Teachers

Teachers that resist using social media in the classroom are stripping their students of an essential component of their future success. Avoiding -- or worse, banning -- social media platforms for students prohibits them from being successful professionals in fields like accounting, chemistry, the arts and more - x

 The most growing network that everyone is using isn't email or face-to-face; it's social media networks.  With a new popular network popping up everyone so often, it's only common that social media becomes the way the world communicates. As said by the Huffington Post, using the phone and writing a letter may still exist, but how fast can you send a mass message to your closest 200 friends by letter?

By using social media in the classroom, teacher-student-student communicate will excel. As an example, in our Identity, Status, and Power in Social Media class, our class has our own hash-tag, as a way to not only communicate with other classmates about news, projects, and lessons, but will also have the guidance of a teacher there as well. The only implication of the use of social media networks for classroom use, is that if students were to use it for their own personal use as a distraction.

In my personal opinion, it's best to go with the growing trend instead of against. If high school students were using their favourite sites for classes, perhaps they will not only understand their assignments more, but be more inclined to include in on the discussion with their classmates. In this article, an English teacher in Detroit named Nicholas Provenzano discusses the improvement of using social media in-class:

"That in a class of 30, only about 12 usually carried the conversation, but that eight more might pipe up on a backchannel. “Another eight kids entering a discussion is huge,”