Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Teaching Toddlers To Tweet?
The article, "Teaching Toddlers to Tweet? Introducing Social Media into Elementary Schools", by Beth Holland, she talks about how things are changing and how students even in elementary school, should be using social media. I really liked her introduction to the article where she talks about the importance of students playing outside, Interacting facd to face, and engaging in hands on activities. She then goes on to talk about how there are great tools available to introduce technology and social media to young students. How it allows them to explore and gives them more opportunities than they had in the past. I definitely agree that it is crucial we teacher children from a young age about all of this and how to use it properly, I do think it is a fine line. Students will most likely be using things similar to this and home and it is only natural to bring it into the classroom, but obviously with certain stipulations and restrictions. I did find it very interesting to see how technology is greatly changing how students learn and how teachers teach, even in the early grades!.
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Toddlers tweeting.. I believe it! My 3 year old daughter knows how to get to my Facebook app on my phone and scroll through the newsfeed to find pictures that she likes. It's amazing what kids can do. I do agree. There needs to be a fine line and social media responsibility needs to be on the top of the list.
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