Twitter: Helpful or Distracting?

If you asked anyone over the age of thirty what Twitter is, some may say they have no idea what it is or that they only know of it because their children have one. Teenagers, such as myself, use social media sites each day to communicate with each other. I believe that since this is a part of our culture, whether people like it or not, we may as well use it to our advantage.

Looking around classrooms each day, I find myself being able to see multiple people at a time on twitter. We are in the middle of class, and yet people can't seem to be able to put down their phones to pay attention. So if we used Twitter as a part of everyday classroom work, would it help kids to participate? I think so.




By using Twitter, an account can be created for the teacher. Teachers can then post due dates and upcoming tests with important items that should be studied, which can then be sent directly to each student's twitter. If students are already on their phones constantly as is, they would see these deadlines. It would motivate students to do well and increase work turned in. 

Many people would then argue that if students are allowed to use their phones in class, they won't use it appropriately. However, if teachers and school administrators were to get twitters, they could influence the students to use the social media as an aid, rather than a distraction. Social media can get messages to the students who would then actually read it because it's on Twitter, not in a boring lecture by the teacher.








http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/4257458/?utm_hp_ref=social-media-in-schools
http://debate.org/cellphones