Thing 18

More and more people are using social networking sites on a daily basis. In my personal opinion, I do not believe that Facebook would be of great use to an elementary teacher because I believe children (sixth and under) should not have a Facebook page.  However, twitter and Facebook would be useful for middle and/or High School students because you could create a page for that class or tweet about an assignment. It is important for educators to know about these sites because on a daily basis students get on one or the other. I believe Facebook would be of greater use in the classroom because it had more useful features. What I like most about Facebook is the instant chat because lets just say you were studying for a test the next day and you had a question about a certain problem, you could message someone in your class group and hopefully figure out the answer. Twitter and Facebook are both great social networking sites, I am just more familiar with Facebook, therefore I am leaning more towards that network site.