Argument: The
use of social media in
a classroom would distract students and cause more harm than good
"millennial
students
are technology-savvy, rely on search engines to find
information, are interested in multimedia, have a short
attention span, and multitask on everything. Needless to
say, having access to so many different modes of social
connection and communication may serve to overstimulate students.
For example, usage of smartphones
and laptops often serves to distract students from paying
attention during class. It is not hard to extrapolate
that student disengagement in the classroom may occur
on an even greater scale in large lecture-style courses,
where students are less likely to be “called out” by
their professor." (Abe 17)
Source:
Abe, Paige, and Nickolas A. Jordan.
"Integrating Social
Media into the Classroom Curriculum." About Campus,
vol. 18,
no. 1, 2013, pp. 16-20. ProQuest,