I’ve been addicted to Pinterest for years now. I can draw inspiration for art, teaching, and
life from this one site that offers so much.
Before I discovered Pinterest, I was forever creating word documents in
an attempt to keep great ideas in some format and then try to organize. TRY TO
are the operate words of that sentence.
I needed the creators of Pinterest to give me a hand! Now, I can tap into unlimited sources to
teach any topic within the curriculum, find great gifts to create, garden with
new ideas, find ways to refresh my closet-truly unlimited reasons to tap into
this amazing website. Get started with
an email address and password. It’s user
friendly and you will get hooked immediately! Join Pinterest!
Are
you interested in social media in the classroom? As for me-YES!!!! Although there are a few disadvantages
because students get distracted and can stumble across inappropriate content,
the world is at the fingertips of our students if we can open our minds enough
to allow them to explore and become engaged in connecting with the right people
for the right reasons. There are safe
sites like Edmodo or Google Classroom to engage younger students in and
hopefully allow them to expand to other social media sites as they mature. This is an opportunity to provide rigorous,
real-world, unpredictable problems for our students in a way that is very relevant
to them. There are some great articles
to review if my opinion isn’t enough to persuade you. Check out Pros and Cons of Social Media or The pros and cons of social media classrooms to read
opinions of both the pros and the cons of social media in the classroom.
Social media is the way kids and many adults function in
today’s society. It’s our responsibility
as educators to teach the way students learn, not make them learn the way we
teach.
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