I personally am not at all interested or in favor of using Facebook and Twitter for educational purposes. I think they are okay when used as general communication tools. For example, East Noble School Corporation has various Twitter accounts set up. A general one that is used to relay information that applies to the entire corporation, this came in handy during the week long school closings! There is a middle school athletics account. It has general info about games etc., and is updated by the middle school Athletic Director. This is great! Facebook can be used for the same, but Facebook anymore is becoming so corrupt with hackers and false accounts. It's kind of scary actually. I am not against experimenting with the use of social media in my classroom, but it will not be Twitter and/or Facebook. It will be something designed specifically towards an educational setting. Even then though...it will not always be hack proof.
I'm just not real comfortable with that.
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