Article 3 Review

And now I'm back with a review on social media in education!


The article starts with talking about how social media is taking its place in education, and with it comes a whole new set of interesting programs and interesting challenges.  It talks about the idea of bullying becoming cyber bullying, note passing becoming sexting and social media being a potentially huge liability.  However, it goes off to say then that even though these challenges exist, if schools nurture this great responsibility, the social media resources will be great.  Then there was a list of different social media platforms that educators can look into: Edmodo, SchoolTube, Glogster, Collaborize Classroom, EDU 2.0, Kidblog.org, Edublogs, Nin, Elluminate, SurveyMonkey, and other blogs and wikis.  The last thing that is mentioned is that social media in education is something that teachers have to just jump into to experience it for themselves.


The article was interesting because of the different tools that the author mentions and also interesting in the fact that he brings up the very serious issue that a lot of us have brought up before.  What about the privacy factor.  How are we going to protect our students?  Then it talks about how if we really examine this responsibility and nurture the idea of it, then we can use it.  I think that it is important that we talk about putting all of these things into perspective and think about every major thing that has happened with technology and/or education.  Each new trend has met resistance and had to have a set of expectations and rules that went along with it.  Every time we have succeeded in rising to these new expectations and working through the challenges.


Rivero, V. (2011, June). We're talking social media in education. Internet@Schools, 18(3), 12-15.