Protecting student safety has been the rationale behind the recent spate of laws restricting teachers’ and students’ communication via social networking. The laws call into into question once again the educational value of these sorts of online social tools: Why do teachers need to talk to students on Facebook? Shouldn’t students be studying? Isn’t Facebook just a waste of time?
There are many arguments for using social media in education. (For example, here are 50 reasons to allow Facebook in your classroom.) One of the most powerful arguments is simply because Facebook is, and has been since its creation, a Web site that students want to use. Remember, though its audience has exploded to 750 million, Facebook was created exclusively for college students.
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