Míriam Sans Borch

I have read “Have a look at 22 ways to use social media in the classroom” and in the second paragraph Matthew Lynch writes this about Twitter “Tweet about homework, field trips, and share what’s going on in your classroom”. In order to go on with this I would like to talk about my experience. I do not use Twitter to set homework for my students but at the beginning of the course I make them to create a Whatsapp group in which just one of them, the class representative, writes about the homework I’ve set every day. And it really works. No one can say he/she didn’t know about the homework because everyone has the app and sees the messages.

For me, there has been a paragraph that stands out in Tom Hayton’s article. In “Using Social Media in the Classroom” he points out the importance of minors. And it has made me think about the legal problems I could have if the students under 18 (some of them) download some tools or use their personal data to create some account. Hayton is right saying “teachers must be aware” in his conclusion.

Astonishing. I have never been addicted to alcohol or smoking but I can hear many people trying to quit them and I can not believe that “tweeting is harder for people to resist than cigarettes and alcohol” due to dopamine. In “What Makes Us Addicted to Social Media: The Psychology Behind Dependence” Irfan Ahmad talks about how difficult is to give up being connected to social media. Now I can say I’m addicted to it too.