I teach second grade. I feel that I should start many of these blog posts with the grade I teach. Social Media does not have much of a place in the second grade classroom. The one use that one of the cohort teachers mentioned, using Twitter to follow NASA astronauts, that piqued my interest. I know that the charm of these social media sites is that there are tags so things are sorted and you don't have to sift through unwanted information to find what you are interested in. And social media can be in "real time", which makes posts current. I guess if there are uses in 2nd grade it is on a teacher level.
For me personally social media is a big time suck. I have a FB page and it is a double edged sword. It is good in that I can see what's up with distant family and friends but it is bad because it is possible to waste a lot of time just scrolling through crap, and sometimes you read comments from friends that just disappoint.
I wish social media produced something - an essay, art, poems. Social media feels like a solitary endeavor with badly composed photos and poorly worded blurbs and rants. Maybe I'm talking to myself now but, what a loss of time that could have been used to practice an instrument, walk the dog, play a game with the family, write a short story or work on that novel. Is this the culmination of thousands of years of human civilization? The Stone Age, The Iron Age, The Industrial Age, and then the Pointless Age. Because what becomes of all those posts? I can pull out old letters from my friends and relatives but those posts and emails just went to the bottom of the feed and then into oblivion. I have some great postcards from my late father, thank goodness. Now I'm getting maudlin. Time to stop.
Over and Out.
For me personally social media is a big time suck. I have a FB page and it is a double edged sword. It is good in that I can see what's up with distant family and friends but it is bad because it is possible to waste a lot of time just scrolling through crap, and sometimes you read comments from friends that just disappoint.
I wish social media produced something - an essay, art, poems. Social media feels like a solitary endeavor with badly composed photos and poorly worded blurbs and rants. Maybe I'm talking to myself now but, what a loss of time that could have been used to practice an instrument, walk the dog, play a game with the family, write a short story or work on that novel. Is this the culmination of thousands of years of human civilization? The Stone Age, The Iron Age, The Industrial Age, and then the Pointless Age. Because what becomes of all those posts? I can pull out old letters from my friends and relatives but those posts and emails just went to the bottom of the feed and then into oblivion. I have some great postcards from my late father, thank goodness. Now I'm getting maudlin. Time to stop.
Over and Out.