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Learning through interactions

Learning through interactions

From the course: Teacher Tips

Learning through interactions

Hello educators, and welcome to Teacher Tips. This is the second week in a series of tips on using the Internet in the classroom. And this week, we're going to explore using social media as a classroom tool. Now, many teachers, myself included, have fought students having cellphones in the classroom. And drama on social media websites have disrupted my lessons. So contemplating using social media in the classroom at first seems bizarre. The reality is, students around the globe are using social media at very at very young ages. And introducing social media application in the classroom cannot only be a great pedagogical tool, but also provide an opportunity for us to teach students how to use social media properly. Through social media, students can learn proper internet usage and they can become connected to a larger community that's outside the classroom walls. Students will even be learning professional skills that will take them all the way through college and the workplace. This…

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