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I believe they should. However, there should be a clear understanding about its purpose. It can be used as an alternate venue to discuss class related material. The connection between the instructors and students must remain professional in order for the social media outlet to function properly.
Social media is a great way to create a team atmosphere in the class room. As the instructor you are the leader of this team. With todays millennial's it is imperative to create social networks to keep them engaged.
the student teacher relationship should be held to the highest standard in the class room as well as out of the class room.so student teach relationships on media outlets should not happen.
Use of social media outlets with open channels of interaction help the students feel at ease and communicate more. As long as it is targeted toward the course information and the communication is professional it can be a great tool for increased interaction.
Both students & instructors should be on social media sites but not connected to each other. It can be perceived as a conflict of interest from the instructors stand point. Students can connect with each other to share ideas, pics, etc. Same with instructors & their fellow colleagues.
All the overviews of the social media sites warn against inappropriate use. Seems you would have to set up to many rules. For now I will stay away from them.
I think that social media outlets can help to bring the classroom much better receptive and unite the student attitude toward a topic, you can use it to discuss new topic or even old topics if there are new points of view about them. It can also be distracting as well, so you just need to make sure everyone is using it properly
I believe it is a double edged sword. Our school has a fraternization policy, the lines could become blurred and that could bring problems to the school and the instructor.
I have a very strict policy about social media, I do not connect with my students nor my co workers. I feel this is for personal use and should not be connected to your professional life. I think it would be different in a professional social media such as linkedin.
I agree. At my school the instructors are forbidden to "friend" students on Facebook, Twitter, Instragram, etc until they graduate. What I have found useful is telling the students about forums or groups that are directly related to their courses. I tell them about cases that have been posted or comments that have been said and this usually starts a class discussion where most of the students participate in if they also saw the post. So even though I don't agree with friending my students while they are students, to say that using social media is bad is just not true. There can be positive outcomes by using social media.
I believe that social media like Facebook can be useful in the classroom. It may be helpful to use other websites than Fascebook. Our school has our own social media website. It may be that the instructors can find a way to share information and utilize this website to engage the student while using technology during class.
One can post a blog about a particular subject and include hype links to other information such as web pages, pictures or Youtube videos.
I have never subscribed to social media such as Facebook because I'm not sure how to separate family/friends/students. Frankly, I want to remain private and professional to my students and don't want them seeing pictures or posts from my friends and family. Am I the only one who feels this way? It seems like it. All my colleagues Facebook and I constantly hear students comment about private pictures or posts they have seen on their professors's FB page.
I feel students and instructors should connect on professional social networks such as linkedin, but should not be connected through facebook or intagram because then you can begin to blur the line of student and instructor.
I agree with Stephen. Social media is a great way to share information and photos of their food (work), however, the fine line between the personal lives and professional lives can be confusing. Social outlets like Facebook is an example of this. Yet, soical outlets like Linkin is a great example of a professional site for this purpose
Students are familiar with social media networking. I feel that students will participate more by checking blogs, twitter, face book, while online using there personal media outlets. I can see that monitoring postings could become a chore.
My college institution has a fraternization policy that prevents instructors from becoming facebook friends with students. Our campus does, however, have instagram!
The primary concern is maintaining a persona as an instructor more than a "friend" in the sense of social media.
An instructor can set up an alternative "instructor" account, but the student will still accecpt (or more likely deny) friend requests on their personal account.
Students do not want instructors viewing their personal posts, and I don' blame them.
For graduates in the same field, one may be linkedin or "friends" on a professional level. As an instructor and collegue they could be sharing professional content, however often on the same platform people share personal photos and stories that they may not want shared with their collegues. Some social platforms are more professional than others
The challenge then is to connect and get content in front of students in a platform that they check everyday, and this usually falls into the FB and Twitter platform which also cross the line into personal territory. Linkedin is great for sharing professional content, but the challenge is to get students to use it regularly.
this all of my students they say fackbook is out i think it is just the age of the people you teach
I think that the students and instructors should be connected on only those social media sites which are created by the college. They can post their comments on the site. Other than this I would never befriend my student on FB while I am teaching them in that semester.
Our school is strict about teacher and student interaction out of class. I think just advise what sites to look up material would be a great asset.