Social Media And Its Effects On The Classroom

The three most significant new developments in society during my lifetime thus far would be: technology, social media, and education. For my father, the three most significant new developments in society throughout his lifetime would be the Soviet/Afghan War, migration, and technology.

Social media is a huge platform that many people use as a social outlet to communicate among others. The more popular websites like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram have long existed and given users a way to stay connected with family and friends. However, there has been an ongoing debate about the positive and negative effects that it tends to have on different generations. While many in today’s society believe that social media can be unhealthy due to its ability to become addictive, there are also many benefits to utilizing this platform. Over the course of this paper I will be discussing the effects that social media has on college students. More specifically, I will be arguing that social media has a positive impact on college

While some schools have protocols and procedures for such acts of violence, one has to ask, was it not preventable? Is there not some way to teach people to deal with their issues in a non-violent way? And if there were methods of developing some social and emotional skills among students, could they help prevent emotional and physical harm inflicted on so many people every day? Unfortunately, many times this is left up to parental guidance. Many parents are unaware how to teach and

As the 21st century furthers, social media has expanded rapidly; this has become an ongoing issue because social media is often a tool used to cyberbully. Nowadays, school districts are unaware of handling these issue since it can, and will, for the most part take place at home. Many individuals believe that the district cannot be held responsible since these actions are not viewed by school administration. As academic years further, school districts are forced to update the code of conduct to provide the rights of students. Although, schools provide this code to ensure the safety of students, it often gets reversed on the district. It has been proven that many schools are being sued for not following the correct procedures when dealing with

October of this year, students of American University experienced a new sense of racial tension on campus and specifically online. The emergence of Yik Yak, an app specializing in anonymous, localized postings, created an unseen directness of extreme thought, in which Washington D.C’s American University encountered. Different “yaks” seen throughout this community alluded to sensitive topics such as the 3/5ths compromise and the KKK, all notoriously known wrongdoings of American people. I argue that these kinds of comments would not be made if the setting would be instead a face-to-face conversation or if it was, it would be distastefully received. The medium of social media allows for harsher and more blatantly offensive comments to be made without direct consequence or judgement. Susan Svrluga describes this cause of racial tensions through her article, Students Take Racist Comments and Spread Them All Over Campus. Media and technology allow for a barrier to be built between oneself and direct consequences or criticism in which may arise, thus fostering an environment that facilitates racist commentary and action. The concept of this barrier is demonstrated through the Yik Yak posts at American University as well as specific online dating websites, twitter posts and televised performances.

My personal belief is that society has more fear of the victims, than from the bullies. ”[...]bullying often reveals a degree of anger and deep-seated emotions(among victims)” (Sturgis). In 1999, 2 high school students entered a high school armed for destruction. The were executing faculty and student alike, without remorse. This act of local terrorism was motivated because these 2 students who had been harassed, felt victimized. This rationalization place many citizens at awe. Parents felt that something must be done to address the problem. They started increasing awareness of bullying in schools.

Social media are the most ordinarily used media to connect with the world because of its many advantages and benefits. Many students are already involved in social networks and using it their daily activities including educational purposes. Social media have changed the ways of learning and providing pieces of information on education. It has been used in education nowadays more than ever and showing beneficial results out of that. Uses of social media are increasing continuously in education and both students and educators are becoming dependent on it. The reason behind this is, it is simple to access, effortless to use and easy availability. Among many of the advantages of social media in education, applying it for communication purposes, sharing class materials, files etc. for classroom projects as well as uses of QR codes are some of the leading ones.

Violence in schools today has become a huge problem for educators and students alike. At its worst, we have seen cases of where violence has lead to injury and even deaths in some of the cases. Many questions have been asked as to whether or not these cases could have been prevented and are the schools doing enough to watch for this type of pattern in certain students. While the school system cannot be held liable for a student’s actions, it makes one wonder if it could have been caught before a tragedy happens, if educators were to be on the lookout for behavior relating to these incidents happening.

With the prevalence of technology in the lives of the youth population, professionals face many challenges when developing successful practices that can be used to increase the engagement of students within a classroom setting. Social media, thought by many to be one of the downfalls of today’s society, is now being analyzed and considered for use in educational settings. The world that we see today is one of constant connection, something that leads many students to struggle when engaging in social situations due to the availability of distractions, and lack of social skills. The recent addition of social media and technology into the lives of students has not only impacted the learning environment for the youth population, but also the development of an entire generation. According to Jordan Davis, author of “How Social Networks Help Students”, social media holds “tremendous educational benefits” for students, but is often “seen as a negative” (Davis 1). Davis is a student in 12th grade that believes that social media has the power to change education as we know it and increase the success of students as a result of its popularity among current generations. In many regards, technology can be considered an integral foundation for the advancement of society, but with this advancement comes an array of issues that have never been observed in the past. When considering the effects of a constant access to technology, specifically that seen in

The use of social media in classrooms has always been a very controversial topic. Hence not all the parents were happy that Ms. White had been using Facebook to communicate with her students. Even though Ms. White had timelessly repeated her good intentions she could not escape the ruthlessness of some of the more conservative parents. Today, however, was the day of the monthly Communicating our Word to Better Education school meeting. This month’s meeting was a discussion, to most a debate, on whether or not Jameson Middle School should continue to use Facebook in the classroom.

We went from telegraphs to phones. Lets start from the beginning. The word telelgraph was first coined by the french inventor of the semaphore line, claud chappe. 1832 was when one of the electrical telegraphs was invented. The person who invented it was pavel schilling. A guy named brian arthur of the santa fe institute believes that technology evolves over time. I mean we have touchscreen phones and watches. Stuff that people back in the day thought we would have in a hundred years, we now have less than 50 years later. So over the years while technology evolved it may have had a good impact but it also has a very bad negative impact, such as child obesity, no sun, and even paying more attention to social media than school, not that some

It is difficult to walk in to a classroom and not see a social networking site on a student’s phone, IPad or laptop screen. Social media is a highly used by college students, high school students and some middle school student. The most popular social networking site is Facebook. The newest social networking site is Instagram. About 90% of undergraduates on the majority of college campuses and 90% of high school students use social media sites, creating online profiles of themselves and adding other users to their lists of “friends” on the network (Manago, Taylor and Greenfield 2014). Social networking plays an influential role in young people's lives now in days

According to Bruce Hopkins (2016) the adoption of social media is one of the impulses of changing presumptions and guidance in education. Using social media is already part of students’ life, for the reason that student can sacrifice the time to study just to update its social media accounts. And because of this, it gives students a strong impact on education. The impact might be positive which can help student in studies or negative impact which can pull students’ academic records down to the

Over the past decade, the presence of social networking sites (SNS) have become increasingly widespread: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Tumblr to name a few of the biggest contenders. Endless studies prove that SNS have a prominent place in modern society, especially among University/college students as evident in the literature 's focus on the age group, take for example Spraggins (2009) study where a majority of the sample attested to using SNS at least once a day for a period of 10 to 15 minutes. Without a doubt, its popularity and accessibility have impacted our lives one way or another. In specific, this paper will be looking at the effects of social media usage on users mental well-being in terms of self-perception of self-worth. Whilst numerous studies have already been conducted regarding this topic, its important to continue examining its effects as nothing is constant, ie. changes in type of usage, content popularity, ways of access, etc. Moreover, despite a plethora of studies, different results continue to be yield different, and at times contradicting findings (Murphy, 2012). For the purpose of this paper, social networking sites refer to websites that allows users to create virtual profiles available for public viewing that reveal personal information such as name, age and gender as well as facilitate communication and networking. Users are also able to submit and post a wide-range of

The Thanksgiving dinner where family that you have never met before comes in for a week and invades your personal space. You 're between the drunk uncle that no one really wants to sit next to and the Grandma you haven 't seen in forever, instead of engaging in conversation you pull out your phone franticly refreshing Instagram so talking isn’t asked of you. So many times we often turn to our phones for comfort to escape the awkward tension we are in, this gives social media a hold over us. “Social media is addictive precisely because it gives us something which the real world lacks: It gives us immediacy, direction and values as an individual.” - David Amerland. And as years went on the effect social media and texting has had on writing should be concerning for others. So the question we should pose is as writing in technology becomes more progressive do we loose our human connection/ emotion that would’ve been gained through writing in other forms?