Argument #1: Integrating
different forms of
social media in the classroom would help students be more
attentive in class.
Due to how open students are to technology and social
media "this openness to social media provides an
opportunity
for educators to speak to students in a way they are
likely to be reached”. (Abe 18)
Argument #2: Students
will
be more aware
of the potential dangers that come with social media.
In order to fully integrate social media into
classrooms students must first be well knowledgeable in not only
information literacy but media literacy as well because without
those components students are not aware of what they are using. "It
is a misunderstanding that all
young people have extensive social media competencies and the
opposite is true which makes them
potentially vulnerable. The proposed multidimensional conceptual
framework of social media literacy
contains the suggestion that students acquire cognitive, practical,
and affective competencies. In an
educational setting the focus must be on the combination of these
three competencies in order to deal
with four distinctive types of social media use: 1) to search for or
to deal with information on social
media, 2) to communicate with other people through social media, 3)
to create content on social
media, and to 4) deal with the consequences related to these three
activities including the matter of
the disclosure of personal information and commodification." (Vanwynsberghe 9)
Sources:
Abe, Paige, and Nickolas A. Jordan. "Integrating
Social
Media into the Classroom Curriculum." About Campus,
vol. 18,
no. 1, 2013, pp. 16-20. ProQuest
Vanwynsberghe,
Hadewijch,
and Pieter Verdegem. "Integrating Social Media in
Education." CLCWeb, vol. 15, no. 3, 2013.
ProQuest