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Week 8

 Social Media And Education 

    Social media has been involved in schools a lot, especially recently. Let's talk about some of the advantages of using social media in school. Students constantly have their faces buried in their phones 24/7. Teachers and schools would benefit a lot from implementing social media. you can use social media for online discussions, and posting upcoming events and assignments. 

    Using social media in school can also help build a better and bigger community. With everyone posting about upcoming school events, football games, charity events, and fundraising. Using social media also makes it a lot easier to connect with and contact students. As I said before we are always on our phones. 

    Social media can be a huge advantage to teaching and education, but it also has its disadvantages as well. Inappropriate things can be shared and said, and bullying can happen a lot more as well.  Unless people are keeping a watch over everything posted and shared and it's being monitored this could become an issue. Another issue I see that could happen is just a lot of technical issues arising. things could get uploaded on accident, or fail to be uploaded in time. Documents could accidentally get deleted,  and accounts can get hacked pretty easily these days as well. 


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