Generation Like and Social Media

It was amazing to watch this video and to know how much this little icon   means to 21^st century kids. Kids are so much fascinated by and curious to know how much they are liked by others, and on the other hand, there are companies who are keeping their eyes on these likes and collecting data to make money. Oh god!!! Unbelievable, but true.

This is also true that majority of students are lavishly spending time on social media and sharing their interests with their peers. Therefore, it’ll be good approach for teachers to incorporate activities related to social media. The only debatable issue could be, how to incorporate these activities in a safe mode and also to what extent. In my opinion, social media is a very powerful tool and if it’s not utilized properly, anyone could become the target of cyberbully etc. and it could be difficult, especially, for teenagers to come out from this mess. So I believe that the social medial will be a valuable tool for teachers to use in their classroom instructions, as long as the sites can be restricted to the class uses only and these allow to socialize for educational purposes only and not for pure socialization.

Below is the link that I found interesting to share, this tells us what are the benefits of social media in the classrooms and suggestions on few social media sites that are safe to use.

http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/study-suggests-social-media-has-place-in-classrooms.shtml