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• Through utilizing teaching techniques that incorporate social media, teachers are able to increase students' engagement in their education, increase technological proficiency, contribute to a greater sense of collaboration in the classroom, and build better communication skills.

• There have also been several student-oriented sites and programs created to provide safety without sacrificing social networking opportunities. According to a report issued June 2010 in the Journal of Online Learning and Teaching "Educational Networking" is a new erupting trend utilizing "social networking technologies for educational purposes."

    

  The report emphasizes that these new "social networking sites aim to capitalize on the enormous popularity of online social networking while simultaneously providing a more secure and regulated platform for social networking activities."

• Nelson Laird and Kuh (2005) reported that students who use information technology for academics also have a higher likelihood of contributing and participating in active, academic collaboration with other students. This collaboration indicates that as engagement with technology increases, engagement with academics also increases, promoting a deeper connection between the students, educators, and course content (Mehdinezhad, 2011). By participating in a community of learners, students become more engaged with the course content which increases the achievement of popular learning outcomes, such as critical thinking and individual student development (Carini, Kuh, & Klein, 2006; Kuh, 1993, 2009; Kuh, Cruce, Shoup, Kinsie, & Gonyea, 2008; Pike, Kuh, & McCormick, 2011). Therefore, student engagement through social media can increase connections to create a virtual community that leads to better content learning.
• Collaborative learning is characterized by student interactions and connections with course content. Social media provides an opportunity for students to expand their learning environment since only a portion of student learning occurs within the confines of a classroom (Chen & Bryer, 2012; Friesen & Lowe, 2012; Wodzicki, Schwämmlein, & Moskaliuk, 2012).

• Educational Tool Today’s students arrive on campus, fluent in Web and social networking technologies. Educators can leverage this knowledge to enrich the learning experience.
• Enhance Student Engagement Social media is an effective way to increase student engagement and build better communication skills.
• Improve Communication Among Students and Teachers Facebook and Twitter can enhance communication among students and teachers. Educators can answer students’ questions via a Facebook page or Twitter feed, post homework assignments and lesson plans, send messages and updates, schedule or announce upcoming events, and share interesting Web sites and multimedia content.
• Preparing Students for Successful Employment Students entering the workforce can use social networking sites to network and find employment.

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• To a new user, Reddit may seem like a virtual wild west, full of  ducks who give advice, adorable cats, and plenty of less savory content. But there is far more to be learned from the Reddit  community than what appears on the surface. Digging deeper, one will find interesting discussions about libraries, late-breaking  research studies, fun facts, and long, thoughtful threads on virtually any topic imaginable.
• The community’s interest in the general topics of information laws and ethics, open society, and the like goes beyond just  linking and upvoting stories and posts on these topics; the Reddit community also practices the tenets of these ideals. The  subReddit /r/ scholar is dedicated to the requesting and sharing of academic articles blocked behind paywalls. Allegedly operating  under the fair use doctrine, this subReddit is circumventing interlibrary loan for many scholars who lack library resources  or library services entirely.

• Moderate based on quality, not opinion. Well written and interesting content can be worthwhile, even if you disagree with it.
• Use proper grammar and spelling. Intelligent discourse requires a standard system of communication. Be open for gentle corrections
• Keep your submission titles factual and opinion free. If it is an outrageous topic, share your crazy outrage in the comment section.

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• Despite complaints that Twitter kills language, there's evidence that social media can be used to enhance reading and writing.
• JUNCO: OK, first, you know, let me go tweet it - no. Twitteracies are new social and academic skills being developed through the use of social media like Twitter
• JUNCO: Yeah, but - so I think about it in two ways. First, social media are just transforming traditional literacies. So take for instance, information literacy skills - the ability to like locate, evaluate, and effectively use information. That's been transformed through social media use.
• JUNCO: We now rely on the Internet for so much of our information needs and social media allow users to share information quickly, which can lead to a quick spread of incorrect information. So you just have to develop skills to evaluate these newer media, and unfortunately they get very little of that in school. The other part of that is that youth are developing new literacies by using social media through the process of informal learning. And so learning that isn't happening in the schools and formal educational settings.
• there's research to show that quote-unquote text speak, is actually related to stronger reading and writing skills.

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• issue of modern communication skills stands on the legs of tweets’ usage of abbreviations and jargon in place of correct grammar and syntax.

   

• Mastery of prose is made more difficult by students’ daily absorption in a language of “lol”s and “c u soon”s.

   
• modern society’s lexicon.
• In 2011, the University of Iowa’s Tippie School of Management even offered a full scholarship to their MBA program to one student who wowed them in 140 characters or less.
• has there ever been more reading material in society?

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• less than a decade
• build large, engaged communities, raise awareness and drive footfall.
• consumers to make smarter decisions, engage with brands and demand better customer service.
• many schools and universities eager to adopt the use of these tools in the classroom.
• The best practices for the use of social media are as relevant in education as they are in business or anywhere else – do it properly, or don’t do it at all.

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• five specific ways in which the use of social media could have a good impact on how people communicate.
• would increase the users’ awareness of mistakes and help them prevent them. It would also differentiate the writers, highlight short writing, remind users that change is constant
• would

  create new words and meanings.
• South by Southwest (SXSW) conferences.
• March 10th
• SXSW is a festival taking place every year in Austin, Texas (USA), focusing on music, films and emerging technologies.
• knowing that these contents are going to spread quickly and reach a high number of people, it would encourage proofreading users’ posts.
• can help prevent mistakes
• increase the popularity of short writing, implying clarity and quality of the delivered message.
• many recent neologisms were originated on social media
• “unfriend”, “googled”, “like” or “tweeted” are just some of the examples.

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• platforms for catching mistakes.
• “Twitter has become the arbiter of language for us,” he said. “If we have a misspelling, people will let us know.”
• Having an audience,
• going to reach thousands of people can be a good incentive to proofread your social media posts
• “The growth of blogs, Twitter and Facebook considered in tandem with Tumblr and other social softwares that enable posting and tagging accounts creates an environment of continuous partial production.”
• into a full production — a story, a project, an interactive — that offers the analysis and context you can’t find in a 140-character tweet
• Vine videos
• value of short storytelling
• Twitter’s 140-character limit
• writing short and well isn’t easy.

• “Just as Socrates was concerned that the invention of writing would make people forgetful, people today are worried about the degree to which we are permanently shaped by digital technologies.”

   
• “If a word is persuasive enough, and if your usage is provocative enough and feels real enough, you can make a word mean what you want it to mean.”
• neologisms

  have originated through social media.
• “instagrammed”

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• 80 percent of teen Internet users frequenting social media sites
• Twitter that impose a character limit force users to condense their thoughts.
• whole new language of abbreviations.
• LOL is now used to add a joking or lighthearted inflection to messages almost like a type of punctuation.
• It doesn’t always indicate  literal laughter.
• we reach hundreds or thousands of people with a single post.

• Rather than eroding our writing skills, this has sharpened them. Blogging, in particular, is a powerful way for people to improve their writing.
• Another side effect of Twitter’s text limit is the ability to get to the point faster.
• Blogging has contributed to this as well, since most successful bloggers know they only have a few seconds to draw a reader in before he clicks away. Short punchy sentences and the active voice are taking over as the most popular way to communicate in writing.

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• How are teachers using social media to improve students writing?
• Lessons about sharing – Students can share their writing on social media, blogs and websites. This can encourage students since they know their efforts may be public.
• Encouraging creativity – Teachers can use social media to encourage creativity and the thought process. The thought process is very important in writing. Students can also find ideas through social media.
• • Expressing thoughts – Social media allows students to express their thoughts like never before. Teachers are finding that students can use the same process in writing in school.

• How can students and teachers balance social media and school?
• Encourage individuality – Social media is a great place to express yourself. Teachers can encourage students to let their individuality come through in their writing.
• • Enhance communication – Good writing skills can be motivation to enhance communication on social media as well as in the classroom.
• Monitoring usage – Teachers do not need to be scared of social media in the classroom. Monitoring the usage of students is paramount to benefiting from it.

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• The five major areas students felt a deficiency in were concentration, cursive writing, spelling, reading a printed map, and grammar, respectively.
• "We have such a huge number of [people who] don't read at all," Rhoads said. "They would prefer their social media. That worries me."
• "Facebook, Twitter - these are tools," she said. "Regardless of where social media expands, you must always know how to speak and write in complete sentences."

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• a new blog is created somewhere in the world every half a second.
• A lot of people read blogs more than once daily.

• A benefit to taking online courses is that they offer flexibility to the student. This is a great option for those who already have a time commitment with family and work. Online classes will mold with your schedule—log in to your online course at a time that works best for you as opposed to having to attend a lecture at a specific time.
• Being an online student will work well for those who have the ability to self-motivate. Without a plan or some type of organization, your work will suffer in the online classroom, but if you set deadlines and prioritize your school schedule, you should see success. 
• As an online student you will still interact with instructors and peers, but it just happens through online video. With this type of learning model, you can focus more on learning independently and, frankly, classes may go quicker without the distractions of a traditional on-campus model. 

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• Specialized Degree ProgramsIn many online degree programs, students are not required to take elective classes unless required by their major. This allows students to focus on and study specifically what they need to learn for their job. For many students who want to just learn information relevant to their major, online degree programs work best, as this approach will save time and help students earn their degree faster.

• Last summer McKeone launched Autism Expressed, the first and only online learning program teaching digital literacy to students with autism and other developmental disabilities. The program is available to public and private schools, teachers, and parents. Already, thousands of students have used it.

   

  While teaching computer skills, the curriculum simultaneously helps students develop the skills taught in special education classrooms, such as communication and socialization, time and task management, and transition planning and preparation for after they leave school. 

• She says she has seen students’ social skills improve because of the program. She notices that kids have more empathy, more motivation, and have longer attention spans. She recalls several students she has taught who would get easily frustrated as a result of their low verbal abilities. "By giving them digital media and giving them their own website to identify interests, they had their own voice, and the frustration went down," she says.

   

• The highly linguistic nature of social media allows us to create and consume ideas and information unlike ever before. Much attention has been given to composing an articulate blog post and condensing our messages to 140 characters or less.
• The importance of including visual literacy instruction for our students in the classroom comes from the discovery that students gain a deeper understanding of a concept when they are encouraged and enabled to create a nonlinguistic representation of that concept. When paired with linguistic -- or text-based -- literacy, visual literacy can multiply students' ability to recall and think about what they have learned.
• It would be easy to demonize social media and each medium that it provides for human interaction. But it would be educationally valuable to embrace it, turning it into an opportunity for our students to develop an appreciation for the advanced cognitive skills they employ on a daily basis. Why not study the highly visual communication models connecting the thoughts that mean the most to them with the social networks where they live their lives?

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